KISSES TOO: Geraldine Kirkpatrick of Huntington Beach...

By Jerry Hicks, Lisa Mascaro and Randy Lewis

Nov. 6, 1991 12 AM PT

KISSES TOO: Geraldine Kirkpatrick of Huntington Beach makes great chicken breast diavolo. . . . At least that’s what Paul Newman says. Using a chicken recipe that calls for a 26-ounce jar of the movie star’s Bandito Diavolo Sauce, Kirkpatrick won a recipe contest this week with Newman as taste-tester in New York City’s Rainbow Room. Her prize of $50,000 will go to charity. . . . But she did get something for herself: a kiss on each cheek from Newman.

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Lisa Mascaro

Lisa Mascaro previously covered Congress in Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. She left in February 2018. A Los Angeles-area native, she has reported across Southern California, edited, traveled the States and worked in Texas. While the Washington correspondent for the Las Vegas Sun, she contributed as the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. An economics and political science graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she also studied in Budapest, Hungary.