[Stoat]

But the best cannoli is in the Bronx....

<<< making a note to visit the Bronx ASAP   :-)

I think that it may have been Clemenza who told me that most of the old Italian bakeries around NYC are now staffed by Russian immigrants, many of whom don't know the trade and don't know how to cook the Italian pastries so well.

Very sad.

[durasell]

Ethnic food is usually an immigrant profession in NYC. When a group has been in NYC for 75 or a hundred years they start to move away from the restaurant or bakery business, giving it up to more recent immigrants.

[duckman]

"But the best cannoli is in the Bronx...."

Wrong! I guess you never tasted Hackensack Pastry cannoli's.