Croatian Festive Sweet Bread: Povatica
Jan. 15, 2011, 12:12 p.m. | by Adriano Petrich | Categories: bread croatia Easter nuts sweets | comments
It’s complicated (the situation, not the recipe)
My Croatian grandmother evocative was not Baka, but Nonna.
The thing is: Nonno and Nonna escaped from Croatia into Italy. (Yeah they escaped into an Italy controlled by Mussolini, smart) and they had my father there. So as it happens my father is Italian, my grandparents were Croatian but called nonno and ...
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Best bakery in Tel Aviv
Nov. 9, 2010, 11:32 a.m. | by Adriano Petrich | Categories: sweets Tel Aviv travel | comments
There is another famous institution in Tel Aviv: the “Said el Abu Lafia and Sons Bakery”. I’ve heard from it by some four or five different sources, so it was another of those places that I had to try.
The instructions were falsely difficult for being so easy on how to get there. It said something about get on ...
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Montevideo bakeries
Feb. 25, 2010, 9:28 a.m. | by Adriano Petrich | Categories: Montevideo sweets travel | comments
Short post, sorry! I’m in honeymoon so I might not take time to write properly..
We arrived in Montevideo and on the way from the airport bus to the hostel I had to stop for cookies.
Walking down the 25 de mayo street we passed not one but two windows full of gorgeous sweets.
I was resisting the urge ...
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