A mix of articles on Italian food culture and curiosities that don’t fit anywhere else, always featuring La Ragazza col Mattarello’s signature touch.
Carnival sweets: Frappe and castagnole
Shortly before Carnival, Roman bakeries start filling their windows with mountains of frappe and castagnole, as if no other sweets existed in the world. Le frappe are very similar to the pestiños from Cádiz and le castagnole, fried or baked, to Easter fritters. The only exotic detail worth noting is that they don’t just fill the fritters with cream and…