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Cassata Siciliana is a signature dish of Italy; we have verified places to eat it in Palermo. Start with where to eat Cassata Siciliana in Palermo.
Cassata is the Sicilian sponge cake encased in green marzipan and ricotta cream, topped with candied fruit and pan di Spagna sponge, the convent-tradition crown jewel of Palermitan pasticceria.
Cassata's name traces to the Arabic 'qas'at' (a deep round dish); its modern form emerged from the Spanish Habsburg court of 16th-century Palermo when Genoese sugar refineries supplied the marzipan. The convent of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria in Palermo refined the recipe; cassata became Easter's defining Sicilian pastry and remains so.
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Where to eat Cassata Siciliana in Palermo: the editor picks
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