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Anyone who knows me, even just a little, knows this: I CAN’T STAND PINK. I don’t know why this aversion to what is considered the color that best symbolizes femininity.  I only know that it’s been this way as long as I can remember.

I will dress my daughter in green without a doubt!

And yet: never say never.  What better reason to try to overcome your own “fixations” than for a good excellent cause?

And so, to take part and give my little contribution to the nastro rosa (pink ribbon) campaign, I decided to make an exception and let pink enter my kitchen.  I pushed myself to buy pink plates (rigorously used and thrown away ), ingredients and various decorations to attach to my culinary delicacies.

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That is, when the Puglia meets the America.

Now, some of you would ask, the muffins are not originally made in UK?

The truth is that the English muffins, with the crushed shape and the savoury taste have their origin in Victorian England. The Americans Muffins instead, mostly sweet and with the typical mushroom shape, have in common the name of their English cousins but they are much different one from the other.

Muffins In America are an institution, a kind of national symbol, so much so that some States have their own representing muffin!

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