An Online Cooking Class: a Sicilian Intro A Taste of Sicily before your visit? There isn’t something that represents this island better than Food. Here we find condensed all the different cultures who left something on this Island. Sometimes so…
What a Pesto is? When people hear about Pesto they think about Basil Pesto. It’s the most famous of course, pesto from Liguria made by Basil, Olive Oil, Pine nuts and Parmigiano. But Pesto in Italian language is also a…
“Vota Vota” the meaning in the action Maybe the expression Calzone is not correct for this kind of pizza, my Neapolitan friends will forgive me for this. Calzone is the famous Neapolitan pizza style where you turn a regular flat pizza,…
According with general definition traditional farming refers to agricultural practices that have been passed down through generations and have not been modified or industrialized. It often involves small-scale, sustainable methods of growing and harvesting crops and raising livestock. Some common…
What Almond Okara is? Almond Okara is the paste that remains after preparing almond milk, that paste is the result of the cold extraction usually made with the almond flour and water using a Cheesecloth No waste it’s popular now but…
The thistle (Cynara cardunculus) is an extraordinary, ancient plant deeply rooted in Mediterranean gastronomic culture, particularly in Sicily. Belonging to the Asteraceae family, the thistle is closely related to the artichoke (Cynara scolymus): in fact, it is a botanical variant…
Ingredients 4 eggs 2 cloves of garlic 1 Tbsp tomato paste 1 bundle of asparagus 2Tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil Salt to taste Directions Clean the asparagus, then remove the rough ends—keeping the tender part of the asparagus; and slice…
Limoncello or Lemoncello is one of the most iconic digestives of Italy. This sweet, lemony liquor has been a crowd-pleaser for hundreds of years, so much so, that you can find it all around the world now. Here we teach you how…
It was really nice to spend a day in Benedetto’s vineyard, just a little piece of land close to Trecastagni, a little town on the Etna. Black volcanic stone, stone walls, black soil, rich and hard soil. A spectacular unique landscape.…
In this part of southeastern Sicily, almond trees have always been part of the landscape. In the Val di Noto countryside they grow naturally in dry stone soils, shaped by light, wind, and long summers. In the past century alone,…