{"id":1298,"date":"2022-03-28T18:08:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T18:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2022-04-02T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:07:06","slug":"ischia-and-its-famous-croissant-ischitano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/ischia-and-its-famous-croissant-ischitano\/","title":{"rendered":"Ischia and its famous croissant: the ischitano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning I went to a very good bar in Naples and I asked the bartender what was the best sweet to take for breakfast and without hesitating for a moment he replied: &#8220;signora mia &#8230; surely the <strong>Cornetto ischitano<\/strong>!!!&#8221;<br \/>\nWhat a discovery!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1299 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0031-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0031-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0031-scaled-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0031-scaled-1-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0031-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0031-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0031-scaled-1-270x180.jpeg 270w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0031-scaled-1-369x246.jpeg 369w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/DSC_0031-scaled-1-99x66.jpeg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The famous Ischitano was born on the island of Ischia (near Naples) and is the perfect fusion between the croissant and the Italian <a href=\"https:\/\/foodtourrome.com\/cornetto-croissant-what-is-the-difference\">croissant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It starts with puff pastry and then add the brioche dough. The resulting cake is light and tasty.<br \/>\nThe scent is intoxicating: Ischia croissants are eaten especially in the morning, freshly baked, almost hot.<\/p>\n<p>Normally it is filled as the classic Italian croissant (with creams, jams and marmalades).<br \/>\nHowever, its appearance resembles the body of a bee and then someone calls this confectionery preparation also: &#8220;bee croissant&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1300 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cornetto-ischitano.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cornetto-ischitano.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/cornetto-ischitano-240x300.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\nThe cream and black cherry croissants of Fratelli Calise in <a href=\"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/01\/204\/place\/forio-d-ischia\">Forio di Ischia<\/a> are among the best on the island: they are baked every morning at 6:30 am and Sunday is the perfect day to admire them in the window, a few steps from the port. This is an almost centenarian address: it was in fact Camillo Calise, in 1923, who first opened a bakery and then the pastry shop. During the Second World War, sweets were smuggled in.<\/p>\n<p>My friends, I tasted it and it was delicious! I took the cream one, but not content, I did the encore with a Nutella croissant. What can I say &#8230; a real Italian delight&#8230;.<br \/>\nHonestly the cream one is top!!!<br \/>\nI recommend &#8230; on a trip to Naples is a must try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning I went to a very good bar in Naples and I asked the bartender what was the best sweet to take for breakfast and without hesitating for a moment he replied: &#8220;signora mia &#8230; surely the Cornetto ischitano!!!&#8221; What a discovery!!! The famous Ischitano was born on the island of Ischia (near Naples)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,82],"tags":[125,124,123,48,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-1298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-foodie-travels","9":"tag-cornetto","10":"tag-ischia-island","11":"tag-ischitano","12":"tag-secret-world","13":"tag-travel"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sworld.co.uk\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}