Biscotti, traditional Italian cookies, are delicious treats to enjoy not just during the holidays but throughout the year. The word “biscotti” (the singular is biscotto) is composed of two words, “bis ...

Pistachio and olive oil biscotti made by Jacalyn Carfagno for holiday gifts at her home in Lexington, Ky., Tuesday, December 14, 2021. Biscotti is a traditional Italian “cookie” that keeps well and ...

In 1858, Tuscan pastry chef Antonio Mattei opened a shop in the town of Prato and began selling crunchy, twice-baked cookies based on a centuries-old recipe. His original ingredients were flour, sugar ...

If you’re Italian, it’s biscotti or cantucci. If you’re Jewish, it’s mandelbrot or mandel bread. If you’re Greek, it’s paximathakia. In Morocco, it’s fekkas, and in the Ukraine, kamishbrot. And those ...

From hazelnut and anise to cranberry, citrus, chocolate and even cheese, Domenica Marchetti has compiled a tempting array of biscotti recipes in Ciao Biscotti (Chronicle Books, 2015). Each recipe ends ...