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Convent girl rises as modern businesswoman via pastry craft
At age 11 Maria Grammatico left a convent life to start a pastry trade based on secret recipes. Her story, told with historian Mary Taylor Simeti, details harsh Sicilian convent life, the birth of a marzipan craft, and a later successful business in Erice.
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