I.D.B. Industria Dolciaria Belpasso s.p.a.

Francesco Condorelli founded Condorelli in 1933 and his dream has now become a family legacy. The original Condorelli pastry shop still exisist today in the same location. The story of Francesco Condorelli is that ofa self- made man. Later knighted, Francescos idea to reinvent the traditional Italian nougat shaped the future of the company. Francesco created a single portion of soft nougat following a dinner at the homes friends in Venaria Reale, near Turin. This nougat, now called torrocino was born when Francesco was serving a stick of nougat that was broken with a knife in large unequal parts. Francesco received the largest piece and this unequal division did not seem right. He also realized that the nougat was very hard to chew, especially for the elderly.Once Francesco figured out how to make the torroncino, it quickly became famous in the Catania province of Sicily. Francesco began taking trains to let pastry shops in Emilia Romagna and Lombardy try his torroncino. Once people...