Almond paste filled biscuits - yummy - from an Italian bakery and restaurant

 

My favourite food from Forno  Minitti, almond paste or marzipan filled biscuity buns, the highlight of the Italian  Food & Wine trade show at Excel. Some of them tasted of bergamot.

The jolly gentleman keen for passers-by to stop and try his latest buns and biscuits.  He always something new to taste, as the enterprising company is constantly introducing new tastes and recipes. 

This was the latest brochure., 

Forno is Italian for oven, like our English word furnace, or the French four..

I met them at the Real Italian Wine & Food Experience, a trade show at Excel, where Italian companies were showing their products to prospective buyers, restaurants, hotels and distributors, hoping to expand their reach and export lots more, not only from their own restaurants and shops in Italy and around the world from websites.

If you have a dream or plan of visiting them, the Forno Minniti company is in the south of Italy at Reggio Calabria, known as the toe of Italy. From here ferries go to Sicily. They are planning an even quicker link, a bridge project, which should take place in a year or two after the authorities have dealt with other priorities.

So this is a great place to stop on your way to Sicily, or as a destination in its own right. The old city, dates back to pre Christ, when it was a Greek colony, and you can learn and see more in the museum of archaeology. 

All around you is a view of blue sea and sky, with a backdrop of stunning, silhouetted  Mount Etna Volcano. It is an active volcano. The earth sometimes shakes. But they are not worried. The last one to hit Messina city in Sicily, and Reggio Calabria town, was way back more than a hundred years ago in 1908. They are not expecting another for 300 years. Besides, they reassure me, now they are prepared with better building regulations.

The local wines include the best known Nerello Calabrese red wine.

The same family owns a restaurant named Cibus Minniti located in Via Nicola Furnari, 18 IT89129 .it where you can taste local characteristic dishes and all the products of Forno Minniti. For example, savoury panettone, and olive or onion biscuits..

More details from

www.cibusminniti

www.fornominniti.it

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