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.
'The poignant story of a Sicilian woman...an astonishing
account'
*The New York Times*
Simeti is the author of the delightful Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-Five Centuries of Sicilian Food (LJ 8/89) and On Persephone's Island (LJ 3/15/86), also about Sicily. In the course of her research, she discovered Grammatico's pastry shop in Erice, where Grammatico continues to make the traditional pastries she learned as a girl in an orphanage run by nuns. At one time convents all over Sicily were known for their special pastries; now making the special marzipan creations and other cookies Grammatico sells is almost a lost art. Simeti presents Grammatico's own account, spirited and often moving, of her bleak life in an austere convent orphanage-although it was during the late 1950s, it reads more like something out of Dickens-followed by the recipes for all the pastries she offers at her thriving bakery, now known far beyond the town of Erice. A unique and special book.
'The poignant story of a Sicilian woman...an astonishing account' * The New York Times *
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