Feel This Moment In Sicily

There is something so satisfying about making fresh pasta. There is something so beautiful about putting your hands in the soft dough. Kneading it. Rolling it out. Creating cavatelli shapes on a fork or lined board while talking with your travel companions. Perhaps you are reminiscing about recipes from your childhood home or perhaps this…

Engaging You At Home: Quoted In Today’s Boston Globe

I’m thrilled to have been quoted in today’s Boston Globe about travel. “The key here is not to lose people’s interest,” said owner Allison Scola. Experience Sicily has offered online pasta-making workshops and a virtual chocolate tasting. YES! In fact, today, join us for an online cooking class featuring caponata, the classic Sicilian dish that…

Pasta from Scratch

Here’s a way you can really impress your friends: Invite them over for dinner and in front of their eyes, make pasta from scratch! Furthermore, you can say, “I learned how to do this from a local mamma in Sicily.” Oh, yeeeaaah. That’s right, we’ll spend the evening of Day 4 of Experience Sicily’s September…

Stuffed Sardines Siciliana

Sarde a beccafico, or stuffed sardines, is arguably my favorite “secondo,” or second dish. Tonight at Zest!, GoSicily: Sicilian Cooking Experience’s Annalisa Pompeo taught us how to make this signature Sicilian recipe. With assistance from beloved teacher Nino Elia, we learned how to make the stuffing mixture, prepare the fresh sardines, and fry them up….

Passing on Love

As we were reminded yesterday by Annalisa of GoSicily, Sicilian Cooking Experience, the traditions of food preparation and recipes are passed from one generation to the next. Grandmothers to mothers to daughters and sons… Here, Cacio e Vino’s owner, Giusto Priola, is showing one of our New York event’s guests how to make fresh cavatelli…