I remember my mother, who was from Calabria, making cartellate but never helped with them, so I didn't know how to make them. She didn't make them often because she was busy helping my dad in our grocery store and meat market. I have been turned on recently by your website and a book I bought on Calabrese cooking, to learn how to cook in the style of my ancestors. These cartellate are delicious! Mine didn't turn out as pretty as Rossella and her nonna's but the taste is there! Thank you for bringing me back to my childhood when my mother made cartellate.

My parents are from Mola di Bari, Puglia and my mother and I just made our cartellate this week! This recipe replicates ours, so I give it 4 gold pots!