{"id":561,"date":"2014-01-11T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2015-06-19T20:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T20:06:15","slug":"gianduiotti-turin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/piedmontese-cuisine\/gianduiotti-turin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gianduiotti: a sweet chocolate speciality of Turin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-563\" title=\"Gianduiotti - Turin\" alt=\"Gianduiotti - Turin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/wp_ms\/turin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/co_0020_93_0020_giandiuotti.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/co_0020_93_0020_giandiuotti.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/co_0020_93_0020_giandiuotti-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/co_0020_93_0020_giandiuotti-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/co_0020_93_0020_giandiuotti-700x700.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/co_0020_93_0020_giandiuotti-332x332.jpg 332w, http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/co_0020_93_0020_giandiuotti-432x432.jpg 432w, http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/co_0020_93_0020_giandiuotti-268x268.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Gianduiotto<\/em> is a Piedmont&#8217;s chocolate whose shape is similar to an upturned boat.<br \/>\n<em>Gianduiotti<\/em> are individually wrapped in a tinfoil cover, usually gold or silver-colored.<br \/>\nThey are a speciality of Turin and take their name from gianduja, the preparation of chocolate that is used for <em>Gianduiotti<\/em> and other sweets (including Nutella); in turn, this preparation is named after Gianduja, a mask typical of Piedmont and of Turin.<br \/>\nGianduiotti are produced from a paste of sugar, cocoa and the hazelnut <em>Tonda Gentile delle Langhe<\/em>. The official birth of Gianduiotti is set at 1865 in Turin, by Paul Caffarel and Michele Prochet, the first to completely grind hazelnuts to a paste before adding them to the cocoa and sugar mix.<br \/>\nApparently, the idea of mixing hazelnut pieces to standard chocolates was born during Napoleon\u2019s reign, when importing cocoa from South America became extremely difficult.<br \/>\nRaw cocoa was extremely expensive, so local producers started incorporating bits of roasted hazelnuts (hazelnuts are locally grown and were easy to come by in Piedmont) to make the final product more affordable.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/piedmontese-cuisine\/gianduiotti-turin\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/piedmontese-cuisine\/gianduiotti-turin\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-561\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/piedmontese-cuisine\/gianduiotti-turin\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-561\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/piedmontese-cuisine\/gianduiotti-turin\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-561\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/piedmontese-cuisine\/gianduiotti-turin\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Gianduiotto is a Piedmont&#8217;s chocolate whose shape is similar to an upturned boat. Gianduiotti are individually wrapped in a tinfoil cover, usually gold or silver-colored. They are a speciality of Turin and take their name from gianduja, the preparation of chocolate that is used for Gianduiotti and other sweets (including Nutella); in turn, this preparation &#8230;<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[24,37,51,57,61],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/co_0020_93_0020_giandiuotti.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5cExe-93","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1108,"url":"http:\/\/www.dearitaly.com\/piedmont\/turin-city\/where-to-eat-in-turin\/eataly-take-lunch-in-a-store\/","url_meta":{"origin":561,"position":0},"title":"Eataly: take lunch in a store!","date":"August 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The easiest way to taste\u00a0genuine\u00a0Italian food\u00a0in an original way, without to\u00a0seat in a traditional restaurant, is to go to\u00a0Eataly. 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