Recollections and Recipes from a Sicilian Girlhood
by
Mary Taylor Simeti, Maria Grammatico
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
At the age of eleven, the daughter of a Sicilian sharecropper, Maria Grammatico, entered the San Carlo Institute in the mountaintop town of Erice, an orphanage run by nuns who were famous throughout Sicily for their almond pastries, but who were less adept at dealing with young girls. After ten years...