tortoni

“A maiden aunt who's allergic to nuts keels over after two bites of the tortoni.”

Fictionaut: Nuptial Indemnity

“Some things I ate or tasted included a salad with roasted pears (wow), romaine, arugula, toasted pine nuts, stilton and some other gorgeous cheese (creamy, English, not cheddar), and an incredible and mysterious dressing ... tortoni with a "lobster" sauce and huge chuncks of perfectly cooked lobster and giant, tender scallops, a spicy linguini thing ... my stomach is starting to hurt.”

Toast:

“Some things I ate or tasted included a salad with roasted pears (wow), romaine,arugula, toasted pine nuts, stilton and some other gorgeous cheese (creamy, English, not cheddar), and an incredible and mysterious dressing... tortoni with a "lobster" sauce and huge chuncks of perfectly cooked lobster and giant, tender scallops, a spicy linguini thing... my stomach is starting to hurt.”

Around Pittsburgh

“I made pecan pie and a frozen chocolate amaretto tortoni torte that won at a local gourmet competition here.”

A Grateful Thanksgiving Indeed

“Afterward I had a small portion of tortoni, which never turns out to be as interesting a dessert as one would hope, and with it I drank four tiny cups of inky espresso in quick succession, each flavored with just a drop of anisette.”

The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza

“-- Something entirely different in the nature of a frozen dessert can be had by preparing biscuit tortoni.”

Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies

“Do people really have a problem distinguishing tortoni from spumoni?”

Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4

“And, too -- and note this well -- not the Berlin of the rouged menu and silk-stockinged _kellner_, not the trumped-up Berlin of the vaselined vassal, of the bowing _oberkellner_, not the Berlin of the affected canteloupe (3,50 m.) and the affected biscuit tortoni (2,40”

Europe After 8:15