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• December 13, 2023

  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/

• September 13, 2014

  Villa Palagonia: A Grotesque Expression of the Unconscious

  This is one of the two statues that flanks the back entrance (now the main entrance and ticket booth) to Villa Palagonia in Bagheria. This is one of about 70 strange and fantastical statues left from the original 600 or so that decorated the gardens and grounds of the “Villa of the Monsters,” built in…