Carl Sagan once said: ‘Sometimes, something incredible waits to be known’. Something incredible and sweet, we would have dared to say. We tell you a little story, from the lines of Alfredo Giotti. We are in ’45, the story chose Uncle Nicola, to start the art of dry sweets, with almonds. These were difficult times, and it took three generations to make this traditional sweet so famous. That’s right, because time is jealous of its authors.According to many, he was a fool, ,mainly because in …
A little fold in History: Giotti’s creations
It is 1947, the war with all its ugliness is behind us, the population cries out for rebirth and needs sweetness. This was the historical context in which Nicola Giotti, born in 1914, decided to found Pasticceria Giotti with his wife Gerarda de Marco. The pastry shop was born in the old town of Giovinazzo, in the picturesque Vico dell’Aquila. It was here that Nicola Giotti,along with his family, started producing dry cakes and cream pastries, on the strength of his long experience in the confectionery field, gained during …