St Joseph's Day 2024

Today is a special day in the history of the Studio, St Joseph's Day.  This is a major holiday in Italy, where St Joseph is the patron saint of the nation, as well as the patron saint of woodworkers, carpenters, and for some reason, bakers of desserts.  As a result, there is a tradition of eating a particular dessert, a zeppole filled with some kind of cream. Usually cannoli cream, but I have also seen custard and whipped cream.  Any way, it's tasty.  I think it's a better tradition than eating corned beef (an English food) or drinking an excess of alcohol, which is what happens on St Patrick's Day, two days earlier.  Still, in this country, it is Patrick's holiday that gets the most attention.  Sometimes it is hard to find the proper treat, as some bakeries will produce St Patrick's Day items, but never heard of St Joseph's Day.  I found this one in a local Shop Rite yesterday and decided to buy them right then.  Low cost, and it would save my mother from driving around to find a place that has them, and often charges a lot of money for them.  See it below: 

I had mine late in the evening, my dessert for the night.  I've had better ones, but this was not bad, and a nice treat.  If you want to hear more about the holiday, and how it once intersected with printmaking, and how it impacted on  the origins of this studio,  read my post from last year on this date (it's always March 19th).  This is a common way of finding it, a zeppole fried, filled with cannoli cream with chocolate chips, and with a cherry, or dried fruit pieces.