First as a mere child, then as a girl, young bride and later as a mother of five, Maurizia Pala has dedicated herself to observing and learning the secrets of that ancestral art.
First Communions, Confirmations and Weddings... indeed any occasion, religious or pagan, and Maurizia has been there, lending a helping hand to those expert bakeresses who prepare with a truly mysterious devotion those cakes and sweets whose shapes are as varied as their perfumes are diverse.
Otherwise it would perhaps be difficult to explain the strength of her vocation;
to understand why Maurissa (the pet-name by which she is still known at home and in Bitti), as soon as she moved with her family to Cagliari, at once set up her own craftbakery.
Not only does she continue to produce those cakes and sweets native to Bitti,
but she is now also able to offer her customers a range of confectionary that is representative
of the whole of Sardinia's sweet production.

Bitti is a small town in Sardinia's mountainous interior which acquired renown
as the result of the great German linguist and lexographer, Max Leopold Wagner,
discovering there a community which had preserved well-nigh intact
a lexicon and a pronunciation that harked back to the Latin of the Classical Age.
Therefore, if Bitti maintains such a powerful vocation to cherish the myriad
small and large treasures with which history has entrusted it, then one can hardly
be astonished to discover that there exists a woman from Bitti who confections
hand-made traditional Sardinian cakes and sweets with an especially zealous eye
on the preservation of those techniques inherited from her ancestors,
or rather ancestresses.

On the other hand, it is all too understandable - once one takes into account
Maurissa's delightful pig-headedness - why she won't allow her masterpieces
of exquisite craftsmanship - for masterpieces they are - to be tainted by preservatives,
artificial additives or, still less, by any ingredient whatsoever
which is extraneous to her traditional art.
But Maurissedda (yet another pet-name) has made one concession to modernity.
She now permits her wares to travel by air. For her children, who share in the business,
have convinced her that this is the only way for their zilicas and amarettes
to arrive in Frankfurt or Los Angeles as freshly as they did in a long ago time.
So that now the little lady from Bitti can work away reassured.