Granita is Sicily’s answer to the heat — a coarse, crystalline frozen dessert made from little more than water, sugar, and whatever the island grows best: almonds, lemons, blood oranges, pistachios, mulberries. Unlike gelato it has no fat, no dairy, no air churned in — just pure flavor frozen slowly and scraped repeatedly until it […]

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The alfajor’s name comes from the Arabic al-hasú, meaning filled or stuffed — brought to Spain by the Moors during the Andalusian period and carried to South America by Spanish colonizers in the sixteenth century. The original Spanish alfajor was a honey and nut confection quite different from what Argentina eventually developed. By the nineteenth […]

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