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.
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Yay!
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Might be cheaper on Amazon (or somewhere like Whole Foods locally)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am deeply envious of your trip. Loved Ortigia so much.
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We found it a little crowded (a ginormous German cruise ship probably spat out several thousands 
), but it is beautiful indeed.
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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:
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