An orange in my cousin’s garden. Eat up, it’s citrus season!
Tag: orange
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…
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…
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.