Category: Food/Cuisine
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Cook Lunch With Us Sunday, May 2
Cook lunch with us online tomorrow! Register for Make Busiate Pasta with Giuseppe Sciurca and Biancomangiare with Nino Elia for Fresh Busiate Pasta, Zucchini, Mint, Almond sauce, Spring Fennel, Mint Salad, and Biancomangiare! Giuseppe Sciurca, who will be live from Sicily, along with Chef Antonino Elia, Valeria Signorino, and yours truly, Allison Scola, of Experience…
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52 Reasons to Love Sicily | #17. Pasta
So, don’t believe that legend about Marco Polo—the Arabs brought pasta to Sicily way before, and the rest is … your happy stomach! Pasta takes on many forms across the island—both fresh and dried and made with different grains as well. I invite you to join me this Sunday, May 2 for an online busiate…
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52 Reasons to Love Sicily | #11. Fresh Cannoli
So, since we can’t travel to Sicily to partake in the glories of #11, join me online next Sunday, April 25 at noon Eastern for a cannoli making workshop during which I will teach you how to make this Sicilian delight along with history, legends, and culinary secrets. Let me take you there through your…
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52 Reasons to Love Sicily | #8. Modica Chocolate
Employing a method and recipe that still exists today, the chefs used a mortar and pestle to ground the beans into a paste. They then heated the paste to 45 degrees centigrade, a temperature at which the cocoa doesn’t completely become a liquid. At this point, they mix by hand the warm paste together with…
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“Cannoli Connoisseur” In New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Thank you to writer Sharon M. Goldman and photographer Marla Cohen for the beautiful piece in the April 2021 issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine about my cannoli endeavors! Read the story online at https://digital.njmonthly.com/njmonthly/april_2021/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1669987&app=false&cmsId=3898318&fbclid=IwAR1GNTYh4v-4tABuqfMpujQxyMNQTgoOs4MOdJOxZbgvyvFnLsE5LeF0ITU#articleId1669987. Join me for my next online cannoli class on April 25. More details at https://experiencesicily.com/cannoli-making-zoom-workshop/ The Cannoli Crawl will resume…
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Happy Easter! Buona Pasqua! From Experience Sicily
Happy Easter! Buona Pasqua! May the light of spring bring peace and joy to your heart!
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Watch The Recording: Artisanal Olive Oil From Sicily
What a revelation! We learned so much on Friday evening! Thanks to everyone who participated in our online, synchronous olive oil tasting event. Watch the recording on the Experience Sicily YouTube channel (Please subscribe!) at https://youtu.be/hxXgAiWDg6g. Thanks to Giò Buonanno of Azienda Brancati and Niki Masino of Gelsomino Imports, LLC for your support! I loved sharing…
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Olive Oil And A Laugh
It snowed on Mount Etna yesterday (and there was some pyroclastic activity too)! So, Mamma may look like this photo from two years ago when Giò Buonanno of Azienda Brancati and I were on his olive and mandorin farm enjoying the views and a good laugh (He’s very entertaining!). Join in on our fun this Friday,…
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Learn What Makes A Good EVOO This Friday Online
What makes an outstanding #evoo (extra virgin olive oil)? This Friday, March 26 at 5PM Eastern, join me, Allison Scola of Experience Sicily with Giò Buonanno of Azienda Brancati for an online, synchronous olive oil tasting and discussion. You’ll learn what makes an excellent olive oil, how olives are cultivated, how olives are pressed into…
