Hankering for sfogliatelle? If you're from Staten Island or Brooklyn, you have come to love these flaky, crackling Italian pastries wrapped around a ricotta cheese-based filling. You may ask for these as "Zvoy-Uh-Dell." Or, is that Sa-foy-ya-tella? Mammadelle!

"Sfogliatelle is plural for sfogilatella," says Dr. Lucia Colletti, a Castleton Corners chiropractor who hails from Sicily. "The dessert is actually from Campania." There are two kinds of sfogliatelle, according to chef and Sicilican cookbook author Rosetta Constantino: ricce and frolle.

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Source: http://www.silive.com/