by Andrea Carli

Cakes and candies, cakes and candies and more cakes and candies, and the diet can wait. At the end of the Easter holidays, families will have taken €400 million out of their pockets to buy confections, estimated Codacons, a consumer association.

Six out of ten Italians will serve the Colomba cake (shaped like a dove) which, according to a Coldiretti/Ixe's survey, will be the favorite dessert beating the traditional chocolate eggs. Nearly half of households, or 46%, will consume a homemade dessert. The list of delicacies is long, and the South is at the forefront, although the "Colomba" is an invention of Lombardy in the 1930s.

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Fonte: Italy24