Meanings
plural pasticcerias · plural pasticcerie
- An Italian cake shop or confectioner's.
The neighborhood stores – the pasticcerie, the salumerie – are a delight.
2007, Catherine Richards, Adventure Guide to Milan and the Italian Lakes, Hunter Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 15 more examples
Pastries and fancy cakes are served with coffee or wine in cafés, and Italians buy them at pasticcerie to take home for holidays or for special occasions. But these sophisticated creations of the pasticcerie are not often attempted by busy home cooks.
1990, the Moosewood Collective, Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant: Ethnic and Regional Recipes from the Cooks at the Legendary Restaurant, Fireside, →ISBN, page 371Everything, except bars and restaurants, closes on Sunday, though you might find pasticcerias, and fish shops in some coastal towns, open until lunchtime.
2002, Robert Andrews, Jules Brown, Sicily, 5th edition, Rough Guides Ltd, →ISBN, page 42In Capri there are many small pasticcerias that sell this delicious, crumbly bitter chocolate and almond cake.
2009, Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers, The River Cafe Classic Italian Cookbook, Michael Joseph, published 2017, →ISBNEventually, the ancient Piazza Navona, with its famous Baroque fountain in the middle of a first-century Roman circus, its outdoor cafes and pasticcerias serving delectable dolci, its roving portrait artists and lively street theater, would be way too touristy for the cool American students we’d become, but for a first night’s foray into the Roman evening it made a perfect destination.
2011, Tim O’Donnell, A View from the Back Pew: God, Religion & Our Personal Quest for Truth, Linchpin Publishing LLC, →ISBNAt the beautiful pasticcerias, Benedicta and Father Giuseppe got themselves each a cup of coffee.
2015, Morson Livingston, The Hidden Revelation, Xlibris, →ISBN
Origin
- Italianpasticceria
- Italianpasticceria
- Englishpasticceria
Borrowed from Italian pasticceria.
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