Italian Easter bread is a sweet bread enjoyed around Italy and by Italian Americans, with many renditions. The origins of Italian Easter bread aren't fully known and there are many different ...

In my Italian family you knew Lent (40 days of deprivation, soul-searching, and fasting) was almost over when the annual baking contest began. This was no casual competition. This was the Easter Bread ...

Abbondanza — Italian for "abundance" — is a bi-monthly column from writer Michael La Corte in which the author shares his tips for making traditional Italian-American recipes even better. For many, ...

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Easter breads are a tradition in many European countries, but you don't have to wait until Easter to enjoy them. They usually start appearing in bakeries sometime after Ash Wednesday, and are offered ...

There were Eastern European sweet yeast breads of all kinds — breads braided in the shapes of animals and baskets; braided breads with colored eggs baked into them (Pane di pasqua/Italian Easter bread ...

Robert recently wrote about sanguinaccio, the Lenten chocolate pudding made with fresh pigs’ blood available at Bensonhurst’s Villabate Bakery. Villabate was opened in 1980 by a Sicilian family, and ...

If you're looking for a project, there's no shortage of sweet treats to bake on Easter weekend. Kick off the weekend with traditional hot cross buns on Good Friday, then bake a sweet pull-apart bread ...

Dreaming of foreign travel? For me, it’s Italy, but since I can’t be there at the moment, I’m inviting Italy to my Easter table. In Italy, Easter is known as Pasqua and is the second most celebrated ...

Easter bread can be found on many people's tables on Easter. While many area bakeries have been offering this Easter staple for several weeks, people are not perfect and there still are some trying to ...