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Cunzamu a Pizza Stop the pizza delivery man, for ever! Unless… it’s being delivered directly from Sicily. I am sure that if you try this homemade pizza you will never buy into any impersonator again. Although most of us think of pizza a (read full article)
Purpetti di Riso Somehow I’m stuck with leftover white rice every time I make it. I hate to throw it out, but I’m not one to save food in the refrigerator hoping to use it the next day. Especially a meat dish, I never store it for more tha (read full article)
Purciddati These are my husband’s favorite cookies that my mother learned to make when days were less complicated, and people had more time to smell the flowers. My husband rants and raves about them to everyone. The crust is soft and crumbly an (read full article)
Brodu di Costu di Viteddu From 1970 to 1972 I lived in Palermo, Sicily. I attended an all girl boarding school, Educandato Maria Adelaide, where I lived with other fellow students and a group of women administrators which we called housemistres (read full article)
Brodu di pisci Tip: Whenever I filet my fish I use the skeleton to make soup so as not to waste anything. We Sicilians use fish soup as a curative food, just like Americans use chicken soup. Perhaps because fish is more plentiful on an Island, (read full article)
Tortini di Carangidi(sauru) I Sit at my dock, on a beautiful late morning. Bright and softly breezy, with feathery white clouds over a beautiful striking blue sky, and a sun that peaks intensely through from cloud to cloud, while the wind car (read full article)
Minestra di Pummadoru e Verdura For a 5 year old a mystery is magic! That is how it was for me that beautiful sunny morning when my parents woke me from my sleep and announced that something was waiting for me and all I had to do was to find what (read full article)
Cucuzzi fritti Sicilians eat very little dark meat. Sicily is an arid island, we don’t have much in the way of pastures. Cows are raised primarily for lactation, and production of cheese. Most meat is imported, except for chicken, goat, rab (read full article)
Spaghettata cu Pummadoru Sicchi In 1958, at the age of 19, my zio Giuseppe Manto (Uncle Joe) parted with Sicily, I recall always hearing about zio Giuseppe, even though I had never met him. When he left I had not been conceived yet, but I he (read full article)
Purpetti di Patati A bad day turns out to be good! I could not go out and play. That late morning, I had run up the stairs of our building, stopped on the second floor and got the bright idea of ringing the door bell of our elderly neighbors (read full article)
Schiacciata How many elephants can you fit in a Volkswagen? That is the old joke every child loves to tells by the time he/she is 5 years old. But by the age of 8 I had learned how many young Italians can fit into a Lancia Appia. If I recall well, 8 (read full article)
Pani e Ciocculatu My neighborhood circle of friends was the same from 1st to 5th grade. Adriana, the little girl who lived on the first floor and was not allowed to go out with the other girls. Giuseppina, who was probably my best friend, we pl (read full article)
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