Posted on 12/22/2022 10:24:52 AM PST by nickcarraway
When thinking of Sicily, it's easy to imagine white sandy beaches, timeless architecture and a host of delicacies like arancini, caponata and cannoli. But panettone would not be among the first things to come to mind.
The popular Christmas cake is traditionally baked in the north of Italy, particularly in the city of Milan, where it was invented. That's almost 1,000 miles — the length of the whole country — from Palermo, Sicily's main city. But not far from Palermo, Nicola Fiasconaro is upending panettone tradition — and exporting his upstart creation all over the world.
It all started in Castelbuono, a tiny village framed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Madonie, one of Sicily's highest mountain ranges. Here, the Fiasconaro family has long owned an ice cream shop and bar in the town's main square, and in the late 1980s, Nicola was a young pastry chef with a penchant for innovation: "My father used to buy 2,000 industrially made panettones from the north, to sell in our bar during the holidays, but I challenged him to make our own," he says.
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Whatcha mean you never heard of A&P. lol
Lol, I’m taking my older friend to doctors appts. today and I asked him. He said “Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company” was its original name. Sound right?
My mom and dad always made a trip to the A & P to buy a Jane Parker fruitcake every December, until first the A & P stopped selling the cakes and then they closed the A & P.
Peach
My great aunt and my grandmother made it every Christmas.
My mom tried a few times - but she never really got the hang of it.
Making it successfully is on MY bucket list.
Aldi has German Stollen...never tried it...might try one.
Bump.
Buon natale, by the way!
That’s almost 1,000 miles — the length of the whole country — from Palermo
I don’t think 1000 miles is right.
I’ve never had it, but I understand you can make good French Toast or breakfast strata from it.
I have a very good fruit cakecrecipe from Better Homes and Gardens twenty years ago. No glaceed fruit at all, it uses dried fruit, pears, peaches, cherries.
“Aldi has German Stollen...never tried it...might try one.”
My sister just gave me an Aldi’s German Stollen (Aldi’s is a German owned grocery store here in the U.S.) for Christmas. They are very good indeed. Get Stollen made with real butter, not with Marzipan. So much better when made with butter.
thanks..Aldi is right around the corner from me. I go there almost every day...for exercise...I’ll be 79 in 3 weeks.
when you get one done correctly, they are pure heaven—aromatic, mysteriously sweet but not overly sweet and they last for many weeks after opening without getting moldy or stale. it is like a miracle food
Sounds good.
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