Focus on Gianduia, Part 35: Premium Gianduia Spread Scorecard

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Nov 282011
 

Availability of premium gianduia spreads in the United States has increased dramatically over the past several years, making it much easier to find products of acceptable quality.

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Focus on Gianduia, Part 29: Gianduiotti in America

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Aug 012011
 

Gianduiotto options in America are few.  Of those commonly available, most are bad.

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Focus on Gianduia, Part 27: Evolutionary Gianduia

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Jul 182011
 

Though we’ve been discussing the earliest gianduiotti, the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought a number of innovations in production, not all of them bad.

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Focus on Gianduia, Part 24: Shape and Formation of Gianduiotti

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Jun 202011
 

Having discussed the traditional tripartite composition of gianduiotti (i.e., sugar, cacao, Tonda Gentile delle Langhe), we now turn to their shape and three methods of formation.

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