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Bitter Almonds Recollections and Recipes from a Sicilian Girlhood

Name: Bitter Almonds
Author: Mary Taylor Simeti

Auteur: Maria Grammatico

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Maria Grammatico Mary Taylor Simeti

Co-auteur: Maria Grammatico

Engels
Paperback
9780553814651
01 september 2002
240 pagina's

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In the early 50s, Maria Grammatico and her sister were sent by their impoverished mother to live in a convent in Erice, on the western coast of Sicily. Leaving at 22, Maria had nothing to show for her hard life there except the ability to make the cakes and delicacies she has made her life's work.

Bitter Almonds is a remarkable memoir, a tribute to Sicilian food and culture, and the record of an historic and vanishing craft. At the heart of the book are forty-six recipes of unique Sicilian specialities, written down for the first time.

In the early 1950s, Maria Grammatico and her sister were sent by their impoverished mother to the San Carlo, a cloistered orphanage in Erice, an ancient hill town on the western coast of Sicily. It was a Dickensian existence - beating sugar mixtures for six hours at a time, rising before dawn to prime the ovens, and surviving on an unrelenting diet of vegetable gruel. But it was here that Maria learned to make the beautifully handcrafted pastries that were sold to customers from behind a grille in the convent wall.

At 22, Maria left the orphanage with no personal possessions, minimal schooling and no skills other than what she carried in her head and her hands - the knowledge acquired during a childhood spent preparing delicacies for other people's celebrations.

Today, she is the successful owner of her own pasticceria in Erice, a mecca for travellers the world over. Her counters are piled high with home-made biscotti, tarts, cakes, and jams - Torta Divina, Cassata Siciliana, Cotognata. A frequent customer, Mary Taylor Simeti became first friend and then chronicler of Maria's moving story.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 september 2002
Aantal pagina's: 240
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Maria Grammatico
Tweede Auteur: Mary Taylor Simeti
Co Auteur: Maria Grammatico
Hoofduitgeverij: Onbekend

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Editie: illustrated edition
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 17 mm
Product lengte: 196 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 199 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 176 g

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EAN: 9780553814651

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