The pesto pasta, smoked salmon and sauted broccoli rabe are near perfect, but desserts are disappointing.

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Vegetables typically included stuffed mushrooms or stuffed peppers and a sauteed bitter green, such as broccoli rabe or escarole with beans.

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China Grill -- Big, family-style place giving celestial portions of innovative, unusual Chinese fare, such as broccoli rabe dumplings with tomato sauce.

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For his final Slow Food Fast contribution, Mr. Maws shares a recipe for pumpkin with broiled end-of-season eggplant and bitter rapini, aka broccoli rabe.

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Most of the buffets at these gatherings are lavish banquets of fresh fruit and crisp salads, broccoli rabe and herbed chicken, and grilled Chilean sea bass in such quantity that Chile must be depleted of the fish.

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The chicken cutlet sandwiches are fine enough, but they do not hold a candle to the delicious roast pork that fills their hoagies (all named for streets in Philly): the Pattinson Avenue with broccoli rabe and provolone is a house favourite.

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The elegance of his panna cotta with baby peas, finger lime "caviar" and crisp rice flakes was the prelude to a meal that included the best pasta dish I've ever had: maccheroncini, freshly made by the chef's mother, tossed with tomato water, morel mushrooms, sweet datterini tomatoes, fava beans and broccoli rabe.

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