JuliaCannolo, Frutta Martorana or marzipan shaped to resemble fruits, and Cassatta Siciliana or ricotta, candied fruit and chocolate, flavoured with vanilla and maraschino liqueur, encased in sponge cake, with limoncello and orange juice at Maria Grammatico Paticceria in Erice. Maria’s story, that of a child from a poor family sent to a monastery and how she grew to become the pastry queen of Sicily, is in the book Bitter Almonds.<br>
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