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 | #920671 in Books |  Bantam Books |  2003-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .64 x3.64 x9.08l,.50 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Not just for the recipes|By Susan Woodward|Yes, you can go to the pastry shop, but it is more important to read the book. Even translated into English, the voice is extraordinary. The story begins sad but unsentimental -- Maria's family is so poor they send her and one of her sisters to the nunnery where the nuns will feed her and she will work -- but has a happy ending with Ma|From Publishers Weekly|Bitter almonds lend depth of flavor to the buttery cookie doughs prepared by nuns in the south of Italy. And the bittersweet recollections of Grammatico, a renowned pastry cook and shopkeeper in Erice, Sicily, lend depth to this slender vo

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 - beati...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Bitter Almonds: Recollections and Recipes from a Sicilian Girlhood   |  Mary Taylor Simeti, Maria Grammatico.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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