Article: PANNA COTTA PASSIONATA AMERICANS FIND THIS ITALIAN DESSERT A PASSPORT TO SIMPLE PLEASURES.(Lifestyle)

In the caloric wake of creme brulee, long-reigning restaurant dessert of the decade, comes the more delicate Italian delicacy called panna cotta - literally meaning ``cooked cream.''

Panna cotta is proclaimed the dessert of the year by the editors of an about-to-be-published cookbook, ``The Best American Recipes 1999: The Year's Top 100 From Books, Magazines, Newspapers & the Internet'' (Houghton Mifflin, $26 hardcover, coming Oct. 30).

You've got to have this cookbook, if none other this year.

The authors write: ``As we've moved on from creme brulee, panna cotta has become entrenched on dessert menus all over the country. A specialty of Italy's ...

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