Citations:wandi
English citations of wandi
Etymology note, from the Italian Wikipedia article Chiacchiere: "guanti (Alife, zona del Matese)". So this term may reflect a Casertan dialect of Neapolitan, rather than that of Naples proper.
- [1994, Richard Sax, Classic Home Desserts, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 629:
- guanti (“gloves;” Naples, called wandi in Rhode Island’s Italian-American community)]
- 2005, Gregory John DiStefano, Breakdown, Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 33:
- Known for her baking prowess, she would preen about with her fried (but 'light as air') wandies that were mounded into a towering dome, lavished with powdered sugar, and shrouded beneath layers of plastic wrap.
- 2009, Sarah Rainone, Love Will Tear Us Apart, New York: Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 138:
- […] if the household was Italian, which it usually was, or if there was an Italian kid invited, which there always was, there'd be Calvito's pizza strips and maybe a Crock-Pot of sausage and peppers and some wine biscuits and wandies for dessert.
- 2009, Buddy Brown, “Desserts”, in How to Eat Good in a Bad Economy, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 89:
- Despite some of the unique Italian recipes, such as fried wandies and frosted grapes, Italians might just eat a small piece of the local cheese or a piece of fresh fruit after the main course.
- 2009, Block Island Dining, Block Island: Block Island Times, page 47:
- Wandies [...] $8.00
- 2012, Linda Beaulieu, Providence & Rhode Island Cookbook, 2nd edition, Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 254:
- Rhode Island seems to be the only place where these deep-fried delicacies are called wandi. According to Nancy Verde Barr, a native Rhode Islander who is an expert on Italian food, these delicious pastries—sold from stands at carnivals in Italy—were called wandi because, as they wiggled in the hot oil, they looked like the empty fingers of a glove, or guanti, which in a Neapolitan accent sounds like “wandi”. Nancy learned how to make wandi from her Aunt Irma who lived in Warwick. They are available in many Italian bakeries.
- 2013, Patricia L. Mitchell, A Girl from the Hill, Bloomington, IN: Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 45:
- In addition to wedding cake, dessert included all kinds of home-made pastry—bushel baskets filled with crispy wandies—paper-thin fried strips of dough tied in loose knots and sprinkled with powdered sugar; platters of delicate pastry slices filled with prunes, apricots, and figs, moist round almond cookies and crunchy biscotti.
- 2017, Stacey Marcus, “Claudia & John”, in Southern New England Weddings, Hyannis, MA: Lighthouse Media Solutions, →OCLC, page 194:
- The couple's wedding at Herreshoff Marine Museum had a distinct New Orleans flair, with the reception menu including gumbo, muffuletta sandwiches and wandies (Italian cookies).
- 2021 August, Christina Ruotolo, Her Magazine, Greenville, NC: Daily Reflector, page 3:
- My grandmother Ruotolo owned a bakery in Rhode Island and I remember helping roll and shape their famous butterball cookies or dusting Wandies, which are delicate fried dough with powered[sic] sugar.