Take a second look! These are not lemons, but citrons, cultivated by my cousins Evelina and Salvo in their front garden. In Sicily between Christmas and the end of April, the landscape is in bloom with fragrant, juicy citrus fruits such as these. Cultivated for its thick, white, fragrant rind, citron makes an out-of-this-world marmalade…
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Green, Green Grass of Springtime in Sicily
Orange trees mingle with the olive trees in the orchard at Case di Latomie, Castelvetrano.
Orange Is In Season
An orange in my cousin’s garden. Eat up, it’s citrus season!
Not A Big, Ugly Lemon
In Sicily between Christmas and the end of April, the landscape is in bloom with fragrant, juicy citrus fruits such as this one. No, this is not a big, crazy looking lemon; it’s a citron. Still a citrus fruit, it has a character all its own. It is cultivated for its thick, white, fragrant inner…
Citrus Next to Me
This is the first time I’ve been in Sicily in February, and I must say, it is a treat because it’s citrus season! The weather has been spring-like (which isn’t normal for January my cousin, Experience Sicily’s Filippo Buttitta, told me today). Sicily is a semi-tropical climate, and here in Palermo, the northern part of…
Winter’s Bounty
Citrus season will soon be coming to an end, but before it does, Sicilians will be making marmellata or marmalade with their gardens’ bounties.
Between Christmas and the end of April in Sicily, the landscape is in bloom with fragrant, juicy citrus fruits such as this one. No, this is not a lemon; it’s a citron. Citron is a big, ugly lemon that isn’t a lemon at all. Still a citrus fruit, it has a character all its own….