Slutti Spaghetti ๐Ÿ’ฅ ๐Ÿ

Slutti Spaghetti ๐Ÿ’ฅ ๐Ÿ

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why cookies are totally an acceptable breakfast in Italy

why cookies are totally an acceptable breakfast in Italy

what my grandparents taught me, plus a list of my favorite Italian biscuits!

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Victoria Cece
Oct 18, 2023
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Written while finishing my 3-cup moka pot entirely too fast and entirely by myselfโ€ฆ

Biscotti for breakfast reminds me of my grandparents. My dad always came home with bags of miscellaneous biscotti, usually super plain biscuits that tasted like heaven with a little sip of coffee.ย 

My grandpa used to go out and buy tons of things in bulk. It was anything from notebooks to biscotti. Theyโ€™d all sit in this little corner at my grandparentsโ€™ house. Iโ€™d always go check if my favorite biscotti were there - these large oval biscuits we would call cookies. They were so plain but so good, especially once I started drinking coffee.ย 

The thing is - biscotti nowadays translates to โ€˜cookiesโ€™ in English, although it more directly translates to โ€˜biscuitsโ€™, and for a reason. The biscotti you find in Italy are often much less sweet, hard, and dry - born for dunking (in either coffee or wine). It all evolves from a history of food repurposing that I annoyingly bring up all the time because repurposing is the true heart of Italian cuisine, not maintaining some totalitarian regime over the authenticity of ingredients.

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