Worth the Trip

Gialletto di Firenze

(By Kathryn Norwood For The Washington Post)

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Gelatissimo, in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 202-289-2744; e-mailFlorentia@msn.com

Italian ingredients and Florentine generosity of spirit help to create these oversize and not-too-sweet biscotti ($1.81 each), which are available every day of the week, for morning caffe and afternoon tea. They are rolled out by hand, the way owner Lisa Pacchini used to make them at her bakery-gelateria in Montecatini Terme, Italy: with a combination of imported wheat, almond and corn flours, which gives them a tender and distinctive texture, plus sugar, egg yolk and raisins strewn with a light touch. In a nod to American sensibilities, Pacchini has added a bit of butter, so the cookies are not quite as hard as her countrymen prefer.

-- Bonnie S. Benwick

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