很有意思的書
『This is what happens when to flour and water one adds eggs, butter, and sugar, creating sweet bread, pan dolce : panone, panettone, pane giallo, pan d’oro, pan di Natale…. The names are many, as are the recipes, but the meaning remains the same: On a feast day we need a different kind of bread.』
『“our peasants,” remarked the agronomist Vincenzo Tanara, already in the seventeenth century made a “dough of flour with yeast, salt and water, to which are added raisins, honey-candied pumpkin, and pepper, and shaped into a large round loaf which they call Christmas bread.”』
