Bitter Almonds

Recollections and Recipes from a Sicilian Girlhood

Nonfiction, Food & Drink, International, European, Italian, Travel, Europe, Italy, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Mary Taylor Simeti, Maria Grammatico ISBN: 9781504026253
Publisher: Open Road Distribution Publication: November 10, 2015
Imprint: Open Road Distribution Language: English
Author: Mary Taylor Simeti, Maria Grammatico
ISBN: 9781504026253
Publisher: Open Road Distribution
Publication: November 10, 2015
Imprint: Open Road Distribution
Language: English

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 of hard work and harsh discipline, Maria emerged with the secrets of the nuns’ pastries hidden inside her head.
 
This is the story of her carefree country childhood—her Dickensian life in the orphanage with no heat, no running water, and only wood-burning ovens—and her triumphs as an entrepreneur and a world-famous pastry chef.
 
Bitter Almonds includes 46 of the recipes that she ‘stole’ from the nuns, committed to writing for the first time in these pages.

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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 of hard work and harsh discipline, Maria emerged with the secrets of the nuns’ pastries hidden inside her head.
 
This is the story of her carefree country childhood—her Dickensian life in the orphanage with no heat, no running water, and only wood-burning ovens—and her triumphs as an entrepreneur and a world-famous pastry chef.
 
Bitter Almonds includes 46 of the recipes that she ‘stole’ from the nuns, committed to writing for the first time in these pages.

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