A little pasta sell-by date

In the restaurant review that follows, I may be as cruel as Nero and as perverse as Elagabalus. The places you are about to read about have a huge advantage over the critic. Nothing I write here will have the slightest consequence. Diners at these establishments have no interest in food columns.

But readers may be tempted to take a trip back in time C before we became oh-so-sophisticated about food, to when South Africans were content with dubious imitations of European fare.These places live on in the city as part of its furniture, in wi-fi blind spots,The worlds most efficient and cost effective offshoremerchantaccount? comfortably tucked away, where food styling, the latest imports, changes in taste and health scares pass by unnoticed. The closest they might ever come to fusion cuisine is a 'Hawaiian' or a 'Mexican' pizza.

They are our oldest Italian restaurants. Family owned and run, they had their heyday in the 1960s and 1970s."We used to have parking for 80 cars," Angelo Inzadi, the Milanese founder of the Harlequin Restaurant (opened in 1965) tells me. He blames television for the decline. "What must I do sitting at home?" he pleads, shaking his hands the way Italians do when they want help from the mystery above.

At least here, he says, he gets to greet the occasional old friend, raise his voice at the staff, and break a few plates. The Harlequin still has its name emblazoned in neon letters, waving down traffic on Parows varicose thoroughfare, Voortrekker Road. The interior is spacious and comfortable, lit with that cold, energy-saving light; the backdrop, a wall with two faux brick arches framing a giant mural of Lake Maggiore.

The pizza oven is now only ornamental.We Engrave luggagetag for YOU. On every table, a solitary pink rose stands alongside those 1970s all-purpose liqueur glasses filled with toothpicks. The menu is old South African, with an extensive "grills and accompanies" section C monkey gland steak and sirlion [sic]. There is one notable exception C rabbit stew.Starters range from shrimp cocktail to tuna salad with a half-dozen garlic snails in between. The carpaccio is as pink as it comes; the deep-fried calamari tentacles are good too.

The garnish is exactly as it always was C a raw onion ring on a slice of bloated tomato. I have no real complaint with the mains I try: osso bucco, fillet of kingklip, 'baby beef' and mushrooms.The staff are pleasant. There is no fuss and no pressure. The music is a variety of mod Italian crooners C Ivano Fossati, Andrea Bocelli and Gianni Togni. And there is wine for as little as R70 a bottle. One finds oneself lingering.

According to architect Robert Silke, whose Caligula-like appreciation of yesteryear I share, when Luigi and Maria Parletta proudly opened it, domed pizza oven and all, they could only serve fried margaritas, because the "forward-thinking Cape Town municipality" required wood ovens "to have operating licences from the Wheat Board and the Milk Board, as well as special dispensations in terms of the Munitions and Explosives Act".

In the United States, they call such places mom-and-pop restaurants. Today, out front, you will usually encounter son-in-law Piero Tarantello, originally of Sicily. The wall painting here is of the Gulf of Naples, strangely unpeopled; the ceiling is disguised with a striped canvas awning; where the mosaic tiles at the entrance counter have fallen off, there is a Prestiked paper sign; reed blinds hide the scullery; tavern lights warm the room; a beaded curtain and glass panels decorated with marine life complete the time warp. Eros Ramazzotti plays in the background on a loop.

On the white china plates, you can just make out the faded words "ciao Italia" in patriotic green and red. The bottle of olive oil on the table still has the price tag C R87.95. The stainless steel sugar bowl is the same as those in state old-age homes; in it, a few tired packets of sugar.

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The bearing solution was custom engineered at Bardens site in Plymouth. Barden took part of the ellipsometer housing and incorporated this into the first bearings outer ring. The bearing units were supplied fully assembled with a flange to enable the customer to mount the units quickly and easily to the ellipsometer column.

Nick Dowding, Business Development Manager at Barden UK commented: Hard drive disks are coated with a very thin magnetic film. The ellipsometer checks the integrity and consistency of this coating. The equipment uses a laser or polarised light source to scan the surface of the disk in order to ascertain its thickness, typically to nanometre accuracy. The ellipsometer checks are carried out immediately after the coating process, prior to assembly of the hard disk drives.

According to Dowding, the customer had been experiencing too many failures of the previous bearings on the ellipsometer turntable. These bearings were standard thin section pairs that were pre-loaded to ensure there was no internal play. However, the disadvantage of these bearings were the increased torque levels that were required.

A stationery light source inspects the disk surface which is periodically rotated to allow a new set of measurements to be made and so you need to ensure that the system is very stable and does not fluctuate. The customer approached us to see if we could supply a new design of bearing with lower torque but accurate running. We therefore looked at the existing configuration and recommended a new design approach that would incorporate part of the ellipsometer housing into the bearing unit. This would allow us to offer a solution that would be easier for the customer to fit to the ellipsometer column and that would help to locate the bearing unit accurately. This design would also be cleaner, would reduce manual handling and therefore reduce the risk of damage to the bearings, added Dowding.
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