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titole
Easter bread in Trieste
A sweet yeast bread plaited with a red hard boiled dyed egg on the end. Titole supposedly represent the nails used on the Cross while the egg symbolizes the blood-stained rocks of Calvary, but Lidia Bastianich prefers to call them pupi ('dolls').
Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls
Image by Giallo Z