Biscotti Etc — Complete Biscotti Guide
L’Atlante · Tavola N.° XVIII di XX

Calabria

Honey biscuits shaped into fish and horses by artisans with their own name — and a "digestive" from Reggio.

Varietà documentate · 3 Si inzuppa in · Vino locale, caffè
La tassonomia — A · Bis-cotto B · Da inzuppo C · Cugino
N.° I
Mostaccioli di Soriano B · Da inzuppo

Honey-and-flour biscuits worked into votive shapes — fish, horses, figures — by the mastazzolari of Soriano Calabro, who carried them to every fair and feast day in the region. Dense, chewy-hard, wine-dunked.

Soriano Calabro · PAT
N.° II
Stomatico B · Da inzuppo

Reggio’s caramelized-sugar, clove-and-cinnamon biscuit, born in the nineteenth century with a pharmacy’s promise in its Greek name — stomachikós, good for the stomach.

Reggio · ’800
N.° III
Pitta ’mpigliata C · Cugino

The rolled walnut-and-raisin pastry of the Sila. Not a biscuit — and too good to leave unmentioned.

S. Giovanni in Fiore

Fonti di questa tavola

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