Experience Sicily

Category: Food/Cuisine

  • Which Eggplant For Caponata

    Which eggplant is best to use for making Sicilian caponata the violet (left) or the dark purple (right)? You’ll learn this and more on Sunday, Oct. 25 when we make caponata during an online cooking class hosted by Experience Sicily. Our maestra, Annalisa of GoSicily Sicilian Cooking Experience, will be in her kitchen in Sicily,…

  • Today’s Sicily Wine-making Report

    This grape mosto may not look too exciting to you, but it is exciting for winemakers! Currently, mosto, or grape juice, is in the midst of the fermentation process. Wine making takes time and patience and practice. See the stainless steel “barrel” in the background? That’s where the magic is happening right now (in a…

  • Learn To Make Caponata In Your Kitchen

    Next Sunday, Oct. 25 learn to make caponata online. Our guide, Annalisa, will be in her kitchen in Sicily, from where she’ll share her recipe and tips on how you too can create this classic Sicilian dish. I’ve enjoyed so much learning recipes from teachers like Annalisa, yet while in my own kitchen. I know…

  • Learn To Make Caponata Online October 25

    Caponata is to Sicilians what salsa is to Mexicans. Eggplant, one of the traditional base ingredients of caponata is to Sicilians what potatoes are to Irish. This consumate Sicilian dish is a foundation of Sicilian cuisine. It is present on almost every table, and its sweet and sour taste reflects Sicily’s complex society and culture.…

  • The Abundance Of Mount Etna In Sicily

    When you walk among the vines at a vineyard like Benanti Viticoltori with our friends at Etna Wine School on the slopes of Mount Etna, you see for yourself what those volcanic soils I mentioned yesterday produce. In this case, outstanding grapes for wine-making. But not only! The Etna region is known for its pistachios,…

  • Meet Miss Modican Cow

    I met this lady last year while walking through the countryside of Ragusa province with Sicilia in Cammino. Dark red Modican cows may be seen throughout the countryside of southeastern Sicily and beyond. They are primarily bred for milk production in order to make Sicilian Ragusano and caciocavallo cheeses. Modican cows graze freely at pasture…

  • The Olive Harvest In Sicily Begins

    The end of September is when the olives for eating begin to be harvested. Pictured is a classic ladder made of olive tree wood under an olive tree. (Olives for olive oil are harvested in late October into November, depending on the climate and the fruit, of course!)

  • Geeking Out Over Cannoli On The Ovunque Siamo Podcast

    Thank you to Mike Fiorito and Ovunque Siamo for hosting me on the Meatball and Spaghetti Artist Podcast. We spend just over 30 minutes waxing poetic about cannoli–I really geek-out on this one, so be prepared! Look for it on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/episode/4oUqU8Wj62lMiL54gKU35d?fbclid=IwAR1NkH4-sS_-LZzN3iTnm14dCFhhFkbo5Ueo0e3mpl1EX6yILWnjPmf_KLE

  • Cook In Sicily At An Extraordinary Location

    It’s hard to describe a day like today would have been because Chef Giuseppe Sciurca and Valeria Signorino do everything 120%. So when I ask them to plan something extraordinary, they come up with something like having a hands-on cooking experience outside under a tree steps from the ancient Greek temple at Himera. I mean,…