It is also used, of course, in ice cream.

Interestingly, if you are someone who hates coffee in chocolate or pistacchio flavored ice cream, bear in mind that the reason is probably because the flavour used is totally artificial.

A local gelateria near our office in Rome produces a pistachio ice cream with real mashed pistacchio nuts and is quite delicious.

The best pistacchio ice cream should have a light green or pea colour.

Look out for the Pistacchio festival every year in the final week of September in Bronte and Italian readers can find out all you wish to know about pistacchio nuts and the Consorzio di Tutela del Pistacchio Verde di Bronte D.O.P. here.

The web site is courtesy of the Associazione Bronte Insieme, but the fabulous images need no translation.