When you want a proper dessert to follow after a real Italian meal, you can’t go wrong with the classic taste of biscotti at our Italian restaurant in Bothell. Biscotti, or the “twice-baked” cookie, comes in the form of a dry and crunchy biscuit cut into distinctive, diagonal bars. They are often eaten as a dipping cookie, paired with coffee, cappuccino, spumoni, gelato, or even certain Italian dessert wines.
The biscotti first made its way to us across the Atlantic with Christopher Columbus himself. The dry nature of the cookie gives it a shelf life of as much as four months, which made it a great choice for the sailors during an oceanic voyage. It wasn’t widely embraced in the United States until the later years of the twentieth century, when coffee shops arose in popularity. Coffee aficionados took to the dipping cookie, and the rest of the country shortly followed suit. Today, it’s a very popular treat in both Italy and abroad!