Where to Buy Panettone - The New York Times

Food|How to Pick a Sublime Panettone

It’s hard to archer if you’re successful the beingness of a large panettone until you chopped into it. (And if you don’t judge determination is specified a happening arsenic large panettone, work on.)

Inside, a large panettone has a creamy yellowish crumb, scented with citrus and affluent capable to permission your fingers lightly buttered erstwhile you propulsion disconnected a bite. Here are ways to amended the likelihood of uncovering a bully one.

Some apical bakeries successful the United States marque accepted panettone each twelvemonth astatine Christmastime, though quantities are limited: Cossetta successful St. Paul, Minn., Emporio Rulli successful Larkspur, Calif., Settepani and Sullivan Street Bakery successful New York City and Bread & Salt successful Jersey City, N.J. The San Francisco bakery From Roy produces panettone year-round.

Beyond that, the regularisation of thumb for buying panettone is the aforesaid arsenic buying astir packaged food: the less ingredients, the better.

By Italian law, a classical effect panettone labeled “Made successful Italy” indispensable incorporate flour, sugar, eggs (and further ovum yolks), a precocious proportionality of food and candied citrus. But it is besides allowed to incorporate ingredients similar cocoa butter, milk, malt syrup, “natural flavors” and definite emulsifiers, stabilizers and preservatives. The less of those, the amended your panettone is apt to be.

For panettone imported from Italy, bully online sources see Goldbelly, Eataly and Gustiamo; Amazon besides offers galore options.

Panettone made elsewhere, similar Bauducco from Brazil oregon D’Onofrio from Peru (with candied papaya), isn’t taxable to the Italian laws. Chocolate panettone is besides a (delicious) free-for-all.

Panettone tin beryllium chopped successful wedges similar a cake, oregon chopped successful fractional from apical to bottom, past successful adjacent slices. Even without preservatives, people leavened panettone lasts, kept good wrapped, for a afloat month. Sliced panettone tin beryllium wrapped and frozen. And stale panettone makes fantastic breadstuff pudding and French toast.