Experience Sicily

Category: Food/Cuisine

  • Saint Martin’s Day Biscuits in Sicily

    November 11 is Saint Martin’s Day. In Sicily, it marks two important moments of the agricultural year. It is the day when wheat farmers must have finished planting the seeds for next year’s grain, and it is when, traditionally, wine makers taste their fermenting new wines (the juice/must that was created from August/September/October’s grape harvest)…

  • Sicilian Cookies For The Dead

    All Saint’s and All Soul’s Day (1 November) followed by the Day of the Dead (2 November) are upon us. In Sicily, we are seeing the pastries and cookies consumed to commemorate these feast days that fall during the season when the veil between life and death is thin. These S cookies are just one…

  • Wine Lovers Take Note! Special Co-host to Join Stirring Sicily Late August Tour

      Experience Sicily is pleased to announce that Benjamin North Spencer, author of The New Wines of Mount Etna and Director of Etna Wine School, will be joining our small-group cooking and wine tour, Stirring Sicily, this August 28 to September 4 as a special co-host. Bringing his profound knowledge of Sicilian wines and experience…

  • Day 7 of 16 Days of Sicily | Hyper Regional Cuisines

    Within Sicily there are different cuisines. So, until recently, you would not have found a dish like this one pictured of busiate pasta with red shrimp from Mazara del Vallo dusted with pistachios from Raffadali in Eastern Sicily because its ingredients are typical of Western Sicily. That fact is pretty neat! Couscous is another example…

  • Let’s Chat Tonight Online

    Let’s chat and get our hands in the details! Join me this evening, Tuesday, January 16 at 7:30PM Eastern for a complimentary online presentation about traveling in Sicily. Learn more and register at https://experiencesicily.com/travel-to-sicily-online-presentation-and-qa/.  Here with Gelsomina, I’m making Chiacchiere di Carnevale. When ready, this pastry is a crunchy, sweet, fried dough garnished with powdered sugar. Leading…

  • Let’s Make Sicilian Fig Cookies!

    Join us online this Thursday, December 14, for a workshop to learn how to make Sicilian fig cookies aka Bucellati, Cudduredde, Cuccidati. These fig cookies are synonymous with the holidays. The complex combination of ingredients points to Sicily’s multi-cultural past. Register and learn more at https://experiencesicily.com/make-sicilian-fig-cookies/

  • A Cannoli Moment In Palermo

    There are spots on tomorrow’s Cannoli Crawl, and still time to sign up! There is also availabilty on Saturday, April 8th’s tour. Register at link in bio or at https://cannolicrawl.com. Join me in New York City to know why this beautiful pastry from Palermo, pictured, is, well, the model for a memorable moment. *Stuffed upon…

  • Bread Loaves for Saint Joseph Day 2023

    Today was our annual Saint Joseph’s ritual breadmaking workshop. This year, Experience Sicily partnered with National Organization of Italian American Women. This bread making practice is a form of prayer to San Giuseppe. The loaves, which are made in the shape of flowers, doves, fava beans, and carpentry tools, to name a few, are meant…

  • Eat What Is In Season In Sicily

    Artichokes are in season in Sicily right now. They are everywhere. And so, what do you order? Artichokes! (And fennel too!). For an “insider” place to eat in Palermo: Trattoria Club Rosanero.