Same sparkling clean display cases filled with Italian cookies, chocolate chip cannoli, biscotti, napoleons, fresh bread and coffee cakes.

We're more elegant, and we sell Italian cookies and muffins and gourmet coffee.

Mandel bread is the Jewish version of cantucci, the hard Italian cookies good for dipping into sweet wine or coffee.

In addition there are Italian cookies, pastiere, tiramis and ricotta cake, along with other delicacies whose names I can't pronounce or spell.

They are often found at Italian weddings, alongside other traditional pastries such as cannoli and traditional Italian cookies.

The first, an alternative to whipped cream, is made with some heavy cream and a lot more yogurt, and sweetened with amaretti, the Italian cookies.

This time of year, roughly rolled, nut-studded caramel apples ($1.99) sit alongside homemade Italian cookies, pastries and pies.

Lately, Ms. Heatter has been nibbling on biscotti, the crisp Italian cookie.

These elongated Italian cookies are dry, so dry and brittle, in fact, that they shatter in the mouth with the texture of pulverized rocks.

Included in that time were complimentary bruschetta one evening and Italian cookies at the end of the meal on another night.