Italian folk wisdom of the day: “Not all doughnuts come out with a hole”- what a kitchen saying from Italy quietly teaches us about imperfection, acceptance and keeping things in perspective |
Walk into any Italian kitchen on the right morning and you might find someone making ciambelle, ring-shaped doughnuts, fried golden and dusted with sugar, built around the hole at their centre that gives them their name and their characteristic shape. The hole is not incidental. It is the point. It is what the doughnut is…
