Rosalba Graglia

A 'pinnacle' of pastry art, a seasonal best-seller

The idea is owed to Luisa Delpiano Inversi, a native of Turin (and French on her mother's side) who, since 2006, has been spending her holidays in the Menton area where she opened “Pasta Piemonte”.

With that oh-so-French name, everyone thinks it’s a French speciality brought over the border to Piemonte. While in actual fact the ineffable Marron Glacé, i.e. candied and glazed chestnuts, are said to have originated exactly in Piemonte around the 16th...