they sell this type of taralli in the average brooklyn italian bakery. They are terribly addictive, especially the fennel. I buy them and then regret, after binging on a whole container.
Yay!
Might be cheaper on Amazon (or somewhere like Whole Foods locally)
Haven’t seen them at my local (Chapel Hill, NC) WFs, and don’t know of an Italian deli/food shop in town. The one Greek/Mediterranean place sells stuff that is past its due date, so I have avoided that place for years.
https://mariakakis.com/products.html.
Probably the one you mention avoiding but they do advertise Taralli on their Italian product list so maybe…
I found the ingredients to be relatively simple on the Tarall’Oro box. Not a lot of polysyllabic chemicals for starters.
But I wonder what they taste like when made with leaf lard instead of olive oil. I think that is how many families used to make them? And how did leaf lard get its name? “Leaf”?
Yeah, unfortunately that’s the place I no longer trust.
Due to its shape.
Most of the dates on food are fairly meaningless from a food safety perspective except on truly perishable items but its depressing when food does not turn over in a store andfood products gather dust on the shelves and slowly deteriorate in flavor and quality. Olive oil for example where I willnot buy without appropriate date labelling.
I am deeply envious of your trip. Loved Ortigia so much.
We found it a little crowded (a ginormous German cruise ship probably spat out several thousands ), but it is beautiful indeed.
I guess we’re already missing Sicily. Scooted over to the Centro Italia market branch closer to us (but still a haul) to grab a few sundry items and saw this: