Happy Italian American Heritage Day! I am Italian American. There are myriad definitions and interpretations of what that means. For me, it means that I am American mixed with the culture that my grandparents brought from Sicily mixed with the sensibilities that my father took on as he grew up with two cultures in Brooklyn…
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A Picnic In The Forest In Sicily
Today if we were in Sicily for our Stirring Sicily small-group food and wine tour, you would have delighted in a picnic in the forest. And this year, we would have remembered the wine opener so Bill wouldn’t have to use a tree to pop the cork! Your wine would taste wonderful paired with the…
Sicily On Long Island Sunday, February 9
We’ve got a seat for you at the table! Join Experience Sicily next Sunday, February 9 for Sicily on Long Island, a prix-fixe lunch of Sicilian cuisine in Glen Cove, NY! At 1PM, we’ll gather for caponata and panelle, pasta alla Norma, and swordfish or veal involtini. You’ll sing along to Sicilian folk songs performed…
A Day In The Mountains | Stirring Sicily, Day 6
Live from Sicily! Stirring Sicily, Day 6: A Day in the Mountains..Breathtaking views over Caccamo and Termini Imerese, a farm visit (tasting fresh ricotta out of the cauldron and tomatoes off the vine!), grilling up the freshest sausage you’ll ever taste (we watched (and helped!) the butcher make it, we bought it, we grilled it!),…