Recipe News: Sample Italian cookies with these three holiday recipes

The holidays are a busy time for Elisa Gismondi-Tufano. As pastry chef at her family's restaurant, Arturo's in Boca Raton, Fla., she is responsible for making the 16 to 20 varieties of Christmas cookies that grace the multi-tiered dessert cart.

By the end of a busy holiday week, she has rolled and shaped about 2,700 of them.

She comes by her cookie baking rightly. Her family has its roots in Sora, Italy. It's a town about 1 1/2 hours west of Rome that is known for its cookie bakers. In fact, the women in different parts of the town keep their recipes secret from those in other parts, she says. She has collected many of her recipes during the family's annual three-week summer visits to relatives.

Includes recipes for:

• Cantucci natalizie con ciliegie candite


• Le lune piene


• Le tre spezzie

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