Marzipan Fruits

It has become a much-anticipated annual ritual to attend the marzipan workshop at our Central Unitarian Church in Paramus, New Jersey, on the first Saturday of December. The teacher, Miriam Campo Forbes, is an accomplished marzipan artist and a master bobbin lace maker. She was exposed to these art forms when, as a child, she spent seven months visiting her father’s family in Marsala, Sicily. The whole family went to Sicily together, but her father, the Reverend Pietro Camp