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Pastiglie Leone: La storia. The story behind the Italian Pastiglie Leone confectioners.
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The Italian version of Christmas cake is the traditional panettone,it is so ridiculously delicious. It is believed to have originated in Milano in around the 15th Century, and typically consists of a light, well-raised dough, raisins, and candied citrus peel.There are many tales about the origin of the pannetone, but this is my favourite version, compiled from the different snippets I have read.There was once a baker named Toni, who lived in Milano during the 15th Century. Toni had a daughter, Adalgisa, who was very beautiful. A handsome young man named Ughetto della Tela fell in love with her, but he came from a rich family and knew that they would disapprove of his match with a commoner. He was a hawk breeder in the court of Duke Ludovico Maria Sforza, and in the dark of night he would sneak out to meet Adalgisa, when she was mixing bread in Toni’s bakery. However, a new rival bakery opened and Toni fell sick, and his daughter had to run the bakery by herself.Ughetto came to Adalgisa’s aid, selling some of his hawks to buy butter to add to the bread, as she could not afford it. As soon as the butter was added, everyone flocked to their bakery, and the customers increased still with the addition of sugar. They were doing so well, Ughetto began to add delicious candied citrus peel and eggs to the bread, and raisins during the festive Christmas season. Toni’s once tiny and floundering bakery expanded and became famous throughout Milano. Ughetto and Adalgisa married and their new bread was spread throughout Italy, and became a traditional Christmas dessert.
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Stéphanie Kilgast is a French designer who creates incredibly intricate and beautiful models of food.
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My mum went to Australia and brought me back some pastilles from French company Rendez Vous, they come in a cute little tin and are sugar-free lemon, mandarin, and grapefruit deliciousness.
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Panettone and pandoro from Milanese company Tre Marie
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Nutella Euro 2008 edition, developed by Ferrero and O-I.
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Blake Lively and one of the S’mores cupcakes she created at Sprinkles, which will be available from January with proceeds from the sales going to Oxfam’s Somalian famine fund.
The gold, white, and fir-green nail polish are so festive.
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JZM’s little cake boxes designed by Gidea Group
Loving gold at the moment.
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Sheffield & Sons spices designed by Birdsong Gregory
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Sweet Play chocolates designed by Elsa Lambinet
Each white, milk or dark chocolate shell has a slot in the front for wafers, nougat, biscuit or caramel, and a well in the top to hold nuts, fruit or liquid.
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Pierre Hermé desserts
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Crabtree & Evelyn Biscuits and Sweets designed by Ruth Pearson and Caroline Phillips at Smith & Milton.
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Cake by Bobbette & Belle
Emily. NZ.
'What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something looseknit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk, or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through.' - Virginia Woolf
This began as a way to store the insane amounts of imagery I collect somewhere other than on my computer, and has kind of escalated from there. I post about art, fashion, architecture, design, movies, music, literature, poetry, quotes, short-films, and anything else that inspires me.
In love with Italia, Europe, New Zealand, ice cream, colours, brown paper, white ink, ribbons, printmaking, painting, reading, writing, baking, cooking, straight lines, and summer.
'all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.'- psalm 139:16
I also have a collection of ramblings about my love for Italy and everything Italian on my other blog here:
http://allthedaysordained.blogspot.com/
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