Abandoned
the convent Maria decides to use what has been learnt and first creates
a small shop with only a wood-burning oven and then opens a new pastry,
"La Pasticceria di Maria", in via Vittorio Emanuele near the Piazza Umberto
I.
Despite
the fame gained, Mary remains a simple woman, but at the same time very
determined, and he wanted to keep alive the tradition of the production
of sweets, creating the external pastry "Antica pasticceria del Convento",
initially run by sister Angela, sadly no longer with us today.
Follow his story, well known all over the world, means retracing the
history of pastry "ericina"." Maria Grammatico was born in Erice in 1940,
the eldest of a large family composed of three males and three females.
At
the age of eleven he entered the San Carlo, a religious Institute of cloistered
nuns, that to survive the tough postwar years, produced and sold cakes and
cookies prepared according to old recipes. Mary stays for a long time in
the convent, and meanwhile, spying the nuns at work, learn their ancient
pastry art.
Today
the pastry "Antica pasticceria del Convento", is run by Angela's daughter,
Mrs. Giacoma Pirro.