Who needs emeralds when you can have Nocellara del Belice olives? On Day 3 of Savoring Sicily (our Sept. 22 – Oct. 4, small-group tour), we’ll have lunch at this working olive farm, where you’ll be surrounded by the Centonze family jewels. But, not only lunch. We’ll also have the benefit of the owner taking…
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Enchanting Sicily, Day 3: Wise Guy, The Answer
LIVE from Sicily | Today we visited a beautiful olive orchard in Castelvetrano, Case di Latomie, where they produce superior quality olives and olive oil under the Centonze brand. Dear readers, earlier this month, I posed the question asking how old you thought this tree is. First, note that the earlier photo was taken in…
Ancient Oil Carafe
This vessel is called a lekythos. I photographed it in the civic museum of Castelvetrano, which houses some of the artifacts unearthed from the nearby archaeological site of Selinunte. Lekythoi (plural of lekythos) were used by ancient Greeks to store oil, most often, olive oil. It’s appropriate to see this beautiful one from the beginning…