Sicily Guide

I follow politics and try to be objective. I do not think it is black and white. I hate partisanship: I do not see why two parties cannot work together. I find Italian politics entertaining and upsetting at the same time. As I briefly wrote a few weeks ago, the Prodi administration - brought to […]

I discovered Renee’ Restivo through a group of foodies on meetup in New York. She is creator of the NYC Sicilian Food, Wine & Travel Club. I love receiving her email updates and news.
A cooking instructor and writer with a passion for authentic Italian regional cuisine, Renée Restivo divides her time between Italy and […]

For the Palermo’s Cultural Week, all city’s museums offer free entrance thru March 30. An exhition dedicated to Giorgio De Chirico sounds particularly interesting: “La Metafisica continua - Opere della Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico”. Check the schedule of the museum and the gallery you are planning to visit before making plans to go. […]

A tourist guide about Mafia… I really want to see this one! According to ABC News, Augusto Cavadi, a Sicilian high school teacher and Mafia scholar, tells tourists everything they’ve wanted to know about the Mafia in a 55-page handbook.
“You know, I couldn’t be bothered to always answer the same questions,” said Cavadi, who […]

The first time we visited Sicily, we were very pleasantly surprised by the delicious food and the excellent wines that we enjoyed.
I remember our first dinner in Palermo, when we tasted a fabulous wine at the recommendation of the sommelier Mille e una Notte (”a thousand and one nights”). We were intrigued by the […]

“Elegance, fruit, balance, and organoleptic nobility; it’s a four to five star harvest. 2007 will also be remembered for the reappraisal of production processes that induced high quality Sicilian wine producers to create wines capable of satisfying the new demands of consumers”.
This is the conclusion made by one of the most famous and authoritative enologists […]

Easter comes earliear this year. There are lots of traditions in Sicily to celebrate this feast. The parade of The Devils in San Fratello, a mix of sacred and profane customs, is particularly characteristic. I do not particularly agree with the theme, but it is a tradition.
The Chicago Sun Times writes about another Sicilian village […]

No one will win next month’s elections in Italy, especially not the nation’s citizens. For all the campaign rhetoric about change and reform, everyone seems dead set on ignoring the country’s fundamental problem: organized crime, or what we might call our criminal economy. Talk of this corruption crisis never goes beyond expressions of solidarity with […]

I have many people named “Giuseppes” in my family, plus it is father’s day in Italy today. Happy San Giuseppe and Father’s Day to everybody.
If you wonder about the sfingi recipe for San Giuseppe, please have a preview from last year post.

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One of our readers signaled an interesting article to us. Southern Italy’s active volcanoes mean that living in the region is not for the risk-averse. Less well known, though, is the threat from the sea.
Tsunamis occur around once a century in the Mediterranean Sea. In 1908, a magnitude 7 earthquake created a tsunami that almost […]