संग्रह: Vergani

ACCORDING TO LEGEND, NOUGAT WAS BORN IN 1441 DURING THE MARRIAGE OF FRANCESCO SFORZA AND BIANCA MARIA VISCONTI.

The bride and groom were offered a sweet made with honey, almonds and egg white,
in the form of Torrazzo or “torrione”, the thirteenth century tower (of Cremona cathedral), from which the Italian word for nougat, “Torrone” , would seem to take its name.

During the nineteenth century in Cremona many groceries were producing the nougat by hand. Secondo Vergani worked as a grocer’s boy in Porta Venezia. In 1881 he acquired the shop and started devoting himself to the production of nougat.