the bride and groom present modest presents to their visitors as a token of their gratitude. A gift, called confetti (sugared almonds), and printed ribbons
Wine & Travel (#ItalianFWT) bloggers are ready to share with you this month a variety of Italian holiday wines, culinary traditions and holiday and Christmas festivities found throughout Italy. This month I'm focusing on the small region of Molise that never seems to get enough attention. ...
Others still say it was invented in the mid-1400s in the northern city of Cremona on the Italian mainland, where a pastry chef concocted it for the wedding banquet of Bianca Maria Visconti and Francesco Sforza, the duke of Milan. In Sardinia, up until the early 1960s, torrone was made ...
grilled just like meat. And although she’s not an eel fan, she loves torciglione – the holiday cake made from almonds and pine nuts that’s made in the region around Christmas and New Year. Some say it’s an eel; others that it’s a snake, recalling the Etruscans who lived on t...