Or other local specialties like marzipan frutta martorana, or ossi dei morti (bones of the dead) or giuggiolena, a kind of sesame torrone.

BBC: Postcard from Southeast Sicily

They are a neo-German mash-up (she is an Ossi, he a Greek-Franconian hybrid) and like the idea that Germany is heading their way.

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One thing marks her out as an old-school Ossi, or easterner.

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Since she went into politics after the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, she has seen off four political bosses, in the east and west, and is the only prominent Ossi to have survived the entire decade near the top of the Christian Democratic tree.

ECONOMIST: Angela Merkel, Germany��s new-look conservative