The first to bloom.
The last thing you'll forget.
The Pizzuta d'Avola. Sicily's most celebrated almond.
In the hills above Avola, the almond trees bloom in winter — when everything else is still sleeping.
This is where the Pizzuta d'Avola grows. Flat, smooth, with a flavour so clean and deep that a Sicilian poet once called it perfect. He meant the shape. He could have meant everything.
Nonna's Almond Ricciarelli Cookies
Chewy, fragrant, and dusted in snow.
mandorlata.
There is ordinary almonds.
And then there is the one from Sicily, where the almond grows sweeter than anywhere else on earth — and the word for it tastes like what it is.
