by Linda Bladholm 

Walk into Dolci di Sicilia bakery, and you are pleasantly enveloped in the warm aroma of vanilla pastry cream and almond paste.

Sit at a wood table surrounded by buttercream-yellow walls hung with photos of Sicily. Pastries filled with sweet ricotta are laid out on trays in glass cases, and more trays on top hold doughnuts and star-shaped cookies dusted in sugar. Owners Alessandro and Michele La Tona are from the town of Cerda, southeast of Palermo, the capital of the largest island in the Mediterranean.

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