dicembre 5, 2017
Are you ready for a complete full immersion of Sicilian Street Food? Well… you’d better be because is coming up in few days a Christmas edition […]
maggio 21, 2017
Are you crazy about Sicilian food and products? Do you miss your local cannoli and the exquisite arancine? Well… stop for a second and read this […]
marzo 25, 2017
Have you ever tried a Sicilian granita? A granita is a flavored slush but on a completely different level. It’s typical of Eastern Sicily (especially Catania […]
ottobre 30, 2016
Have you ever heard the Italian expression “canestro dei morti“? And what about the Sicilian “u’ cannistru ri morti“? Maybe from your grandmother or grandfather? The […]
febbraio 6, 2016
Do you know how to prepare some bread fritters for Carnival? In my family, especially when we were younger, the Sunday before the famous pancake tuesday […]
luglio 28, 2015
In 1887 the eminent German author J. W. Goethe wrote in his renowned book The Italian journey: “To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is […]
luglio 14, 2014
I have to be honest with you: when I was a child, we were never particularly crazy about the “Festino of Santa Rosalia”, (or in Sicilian […]
marzo 18, 2013
Do you know what “Pane di San Giuseppe” is? Last year on March the 19th, the day of Saint Joseph, I talked about our lovely tiyical sweets called […]
luglio 15, 2012
Do you know what “festino” (or fistinu) means? Fistinu is the Sicilian word to indicate the Festino of Santa Rosalia, a huge festivity dedicated to the […]
febbraio 21, 2012
Sicilian Carnival Week The Carnival in Italy is the period of festivity dedicated to the children and it always comes before the Lent, the forty days […]