A cake baked in a borma (a traditional coconut shell-fired oven) is the stuff of nostalgia. People from a generation or two ago, when cakes were not as widespread, fondly remember them. Bakeries were ...

Note: originally published in E.N.I.’s Ecos on 1998. The discovery of the giant El Borma oilfield by Agip technicians in 1964 was an event full of promise for the future and opened the era of ...