Tag: orange
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Orange Is In Season
An orange in my cousin’s garden. Eat up, it’s citrus season!
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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…
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Orange You Glad
This weekend in Scillato (Province of Palermo), a medieval village at the foot of the Madonie Mountains, they are celebrating the Sagra dell’Arancia or Orange Festival. It’s the end of *their* orange season–their’s because their altitude makes their citrus season fall later than their neighbors’ down in the “Conca d’oro” of Palermo. The village’s altitude…
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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.