Bitter Almonds
Author(s): Mary Taylor Simeti
Today, she is the successful owner of her own pasticceria in Erice, her counters piled high with home-made biscotti, tarts, cakes and jams - torta divina, cassata siciliana, cotognata. This is her story, told by her friend and long-time customer as a tribute to Sicilian food and culture and a record of an historic and vanishing craft.
Product Information
Other books by Mary Taylor Simeti include "Sicilian Food", "On Persephone's Island" and "Travels With a Medieval Queen".
Mary Taylor Simeti was born and brought up in New York City. In 1962 she went to Sicily, where she married and raised two children. Her books are the acclaimed Sicilian Food (Grub Street '99), On Persephone's Island (Bantam, '01), the forthcoming Travels With A Medieval Queen (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, '02) and Bitter Almonds with Maria Grammatico. A respected food writer who occasionally contributes to the New York Times, Mary lives in Sicily with her husband Tonino. Maria Grammatico's famous pastry shop, the Pasticceria Maria Grammatico, can be found on via Vittorio Emanuele in Erice, Sicily.
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
- : 0.26
- : 01 September 2002
- : 199mm X 129mm X 19mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Mary Taylor Simeti
- : Paperback
- : 0209
- : 641.865092
- : 240
- : line drawings, photos
