At last year’s Presepe Vivente (Living Nativity scene) in Custonaci, Sicily, they presented an old fashioned olive press. For this antique method, ripe olives were placed in the round, stone trough, the horse was attached to the wooden beam, and when he walked in a circle, he pulled the round, upright stone press that crushed…
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Still in the Family
Inspired by the Ortigia Antiquaria, an antique show in Siracusa from Nov. 7-9, I thought I’d share with you a neat story. The credenza pictured is my cousin Silvana’s. She has it in her beautiful, classically decorated apartment in Palermo. Originally though, it was my paternal great-grandmother Caterina’s, who had it in her home in…