Sweet Sicily
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Sweet Sicily

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Storie di Pupi, amori e canditiSugar and spice, and all things nice Author: Alessandra DammonePhotographer: Antonino Bartuccio DESCRIPTION Best in the World at GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOKS 2014 in the Pastry category.Sweet, intense and colourful is how Sicilian pâtisserie will appear to the fortunate eyes seeing it for the first time. Those who have time to get to know it well, however, will find it is also sensual, dramatic and irreverent. Because making pastries in Sicily is never a purely gastronomic issue: it may be a declaration of love, social ostentation of personal wealth, a way of mocking a defeated enemy. It is a gesture that underpins countless intentions, coded and described in stories rooted in the mists of time. This anthology collects some of those stories and the most delicious traditional Sicilian sweets, illustrated by poignant images and accompanied by some personal tips, the scent of childhood and some memories, all bound together by one embedded certainty: in Sicily,

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