[cliccare il link per andare alla versione in italiano] please have one, or two Biscotto is a word of Latin origin that means twice-baked: the dough is baked, cut into slices and baked again. (To be precise, cooked means cotto, but in Italian we don't have a specific verb for cooking in the oven; "to bake" is cuocere al forno, literally: to cook in the oven.) From describing a cooking procedure, the word biscotto came to indicate a baked product, crunchy and fairly dry in texture (see a photo in this post). Nowadays, biscotti are not necessarily twice-baked (though some of... Read more →