Near Palermo, Ancient Culinary History at That Bar Gardenia
Near Pino’s childhood home in Cardillo, a small Palermo borgata (small suburb, urban outcrop), a grandissima pasticceria/bar, Pasticceria/Bar Gardenia, draws in customers from all over. The tempting goodness on rows and rows of shelves does it: Veritable opere d’arte di pasticceria (“pastry artworks”): I’d head there every morning during an early December (2022) visit to Pino’s family – sometimes on…