looking fan-shaped pastries, filled
with cream cheese and spices,
called sfogliatelle, and their
Christmas sweet, pastiera
napoletana, is a rich and solid
confection of eggs, butter, sugar,
almonds, spices, and crushed
wheat.
The Spaniards may offer
nougats, turrons (delicious almond
or marzipan confections), or quince
or peach paste as sweetmeats. In
Spain, too, I have enjoyed delicate
sponge cakes and very light sweet
biscuits for breakfast. The little
town of Apt, in the Comtat
Venaissin, in northern Provence,