Lamb Meatballs with Red Pepper Sauce and Chickpeas Recipe

Campanile in Chaplin's DayI used to a lot of time in Los Angeles, sometimes for weeks on end. As an Agency creative, I was there making TV commercials for everything from Cola to Johnson’s Baby Inevitably, we had clients along for the ride.  It seemed to be their birthright to be and dined daily and so I spent a great deal of time in a lot of great Angeles restaurants.  On somebody else’s dollar.  I was fond of a lot of places. High on my list was The building it was in looked for all the world like belonged somewhere in Italy, certainly not on South La Brea Avenue.  ButCampanile when Peel and Silverton took it was pure Hollywood.  Charlie Chaplin built the place as an office…