Back a few weeks ago when I was in Naples, I started taking pictures of food to tempt some of you….not the food I was eating, but some that you would like for lunch, perhaps.
Or for dessert?
One day as we were walking through the streets of Naples, Jennifer stopped at a shop to try some of the pastries. She found a famous one called babà (notice the big version of a babà used to attract people to the shop in the photo on the top left; also the sign on the right lists the types of pastries sold).
I understand the babà is often served with a rum sauce, but notice that Jennifer’s is plain! The babà is so common you can buy a tourist magnet in the shape of the babà all over Naples.
She also tried the one called sfogliatelle.
Want some? Want to try one of these cakes?
Other places besides Naples have lovely treats, too. Today we went to Montevarchi, a town near where we are staying, and stopped by a gelato shop (where I got pink pomelo, passion fruit, and lemon sorbetti) and Gael got a couple of lovely nut ice creams.
However, I also took these pictures of the ice cream cakes. (Sorry that the photos have a bit of reflection from the glass, but you will get an idea of how amazing they look.)
I talked briefly with the young woman working there. She studied languages at the university–German, French and English–so we could have more of a visit than I can accomplish in my Italian. She said her parents have been making gelato for over 40 years. Her mother makes the cakes and her father the ice cream. I asked if they sold all the ice cream cakes they had on display (maybe 20) each day, and she said usually. I also asked if the passion fruit that I had had in my sorbetto was grown in Italy. She said her parents had bought the juice for it, as well as the mango and a few other tropical flavors, from South America.
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