Experience Sicily

Tag: Gelato

  • For Maximum Gelato Savoring 

    How do you like your gelato? What’s your favorite flavor? I like mine in true Palermitano style: in a sweet roll, or brioche, as served here. Here’s why I scream for brioche con gelato! As I learned from a waiter at a gelateria off of Palermo’s Piazza Castelnuovo, the brioche’s form–that is, a woman’s breast–encourages…

  • Let’s Live Vicariously

    I’m arriving in Sicily from New York on Tuesday, which is very exciting; however, that means I’m going to miss this: The Sherbeth Festival Internazionale del Gelato Artigianale. You got it right: an international festival of artisanal gelato! Right in Palermo’s city center on Corso Vittorio Emanuele at Via Maqueda to Piazza Bologni, all weekend,…

  • Finish It Off

    Because one can never have enough gelato on a stick.

  • Some Things Don’t Change

    My father, who was 8 years old when this photo was taken, happily gets a gelato (probably chocolate, knowing him!) from the guys (Nicola, Toto, and Toto “Il Grande”) at Bar Aurora in Bagheria. The photo was taken by my uncle Stefano in 1950.

  • This Way, You Can Taste More than One

    In recent years, gelato in Sicily has taken on a new form. It still is in the old form too (in a cup, a cone, or my favorite, stuffed in a brioche!), but these small portions on a stick (pictured), offer us the advantage of being able to try multiple flavors in one sitting!

  • We Kiss Hands

    Gelato ad, Palermo. “Don Gelato. We kiss hands and you lick your mustache. New, for gourmands.”

  • Forget Time: Brioche con Gelato

    Sicilians are deeply rooted in the cult of the Madonna. They possess a profound respect for motherhood, because as an agricultural society, their livelihoods have always depended on Mother Earth. (Keep in mind that Sicily’s hinterlands have supplied wheat to much of Europe for multiple millennia.) Therefore, it’s no surprise that images that pay homage…