Sweetery

Sicilians are not peculiar in their love of sweets, but I have never tasted elsewhere confections so delicious, and confectioneries bear the suggestive name of dolcerie, or sweeteries.

In the Machinery Hall everything is motor-driven—Linotype machines, die presses, printing and lithographing machines of all kinds, sweeteries, bakeries, and conveyors, looms and soap making machines.

Things get pretty rough in the sweeteries sometimes, especially with crowds milling about. On one such occasion up at Bloor street somebody pushed a waitress, who, by the law of gravitation, was compelled to splash chocolate sodas over a couple nearby.

There’s also a Mouse Mine ride, panning for gold, and a petting farm, along with various rides, snackeries, and sweeteries to please children of all ages.

She and her friend Mary Halloren (who was also the daughter of a baker and lived at number 27) would spend their pennies, when they had them, on cream sweets, stealing as many more from the old women who owned the sweeteries, such as old Mrs Francis on Prospect Hill.

THREE CHURCH STREET EATERIES, one specializing in sweeteries (Rami’s Caffe, Chloe’s, and What’s for Dessert), will get together to hold a benefit Oct. 23 in memory of Rami Sternfeld, the well-loved Church Street restaurateur who died last May of an AIDS-related illness.

The school I attended was in such a well-scrubbed residential neighborhood there was no storefront space where a luncheonette might lodge or a candy store suspend its Coca-Cola sign, although sweeteries could be commonly found near schools all over town.

You can buy Indian sweets (including Bengali) at various ‘sweeteries’ in Kolkata, including Indra Mahal on Chowringhee Rd and at KC Das on Lenin Sarani (near the corner of Bentinck St); […]