Sweet Sicily

Sweet, intense and colorful: this is how Sicilian pastry appears to the lucky eyes who meet it for the first time. But to those who have time to get to know it, it also shows itself to be sensual, dramatic, irreverent. Because the preparation of a dessert in Sicily is never an exclusively gastronomic matter. It can convey a declaration of love, the social ostentation of one's economic possibilities, a form of mockery of the defeated enemy. It is a gesture that underlies a thousand intentions, encoded and described by centuries-long stories. This book collects some of those stories and the most gluttonous sweets of the Sicilian tradition, illustrated by emotional photographs and accompanied by personal suggestions, childhood scents and some memories, all sealed by a single granite certainty: the one that a dessert in Sicily is not never just something good to eat. It is an enchanted microcosm, an ancient story, a legend that asks to be told.

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Author: Alessandra Dammone

Photographer: Antonino Bartuccio

Illustrator: Giovanni Ruello

Translator: Angela Arnone

Language: Bilingual Italian and English

Format: Hardback, 17x24cm, 192 pages

Cover: Soft Touch

ISBN 978-88-95218-68-7

Best in the World at GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOKS 2014 in the Pastry category.

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