The American Donuts, in Tuscany are called Bomboloni.  And honestly, I knew them with the Tuscan name until Homer Simpson make donuts so popular in Italy.

When I was a kid, I used to spend the whole summer at the beach of the Versilia and Apuan Coast with my mother and my two sisters. Sometimes, if we were unusually good, or if my mamma just forgot the “merenda“, we could have a “bombolone”, or “frate”, as they are called in other parts of Tuscany.  Read More