Learn more about Lucca’s buccellato, part of the Tuscany Box by Radici Italiane.
Inside the walls of Lucca, in the beautiful setting of Piazza San Michele, is the Taddeucci bakery, founded in 1881, which preserves the ancient recipe of the city’s traditional sweet: the buccellato.
It is a toasted bread, dark brown in colour and shiny due to the brushing done with egg and sugar. It is filled inside with sultanas and aniseed. It goes very well with a vinsanto or a good passito.
The name derives from the Latin “buccella”, meaning morsel. This simply prepared cake was already eaten by the Romans in its characteristic doughnut shape. In Lucca, this product has remained solidly part of the city’s food and wine tradition and it is still common to bring buccellato to friends and family as a Sunday dessert.
We enter this historic bakery and suddenly it is like going back to the 19th century. On the wooden shelf, buccellato plays the absolute starring role, in all its forms. The tin box, depicting the church of San Michele just a few steps away from the bakery, fully conveys the idea of the link between this product and the city of which it is the emblem.
Marino, who represents the fifth generation of the Taddeucci family, recites a typical saying of the city of the Walls. ‘He who comes to Lucca and does not eat buccellato, it is as if he had never been there’. This product represents the soul of the city and its wonderful historic centre, where gastronomic traditions and the cult of the local product are handed down from generation to generation.
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