Growing up I was lucky enough to have been blessed with a few surrogate grandmothers in addition to my biological ones. One of these wonderful women was the mother of my mom's best friend and we would always see her at Christmas time. Her parents had come to the States from Sicily, so she always put out a delicious array of Italian treats for the holiday. She lived to be 101 years old, making cookies until her final year, but before she passed away she handed down her delicious biscotti recipe to my Mom. We make these cookies every year at the holidays, particularly at Christmas and Easter, and they always make me think of her with a smile.

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