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  • 52 Reasons to Love Sicily | #36. Gelato in a Sweet Brioche

    Need I say more?

  • Learn To Make Sicilian Pistachio Pesto And More

    The glory of Sicilian cuisine is its simplicity and use of fresh, seasonal ingredients. Pistachio pesto offers you that and more! Your taste buds will dance. You’ll impress your friends. Join me this Saturday for Learn to Make Pistachio Pesto, Cavatelli Pasta, and Sicilian Orange Salad! Register at https://experiencesicily.com/events/online-sicily-events/pistachio-pesto-pasta/

  • Sicily’s Inspired Pistachio Pesto

    Etna erupted last night! (NB This is an old photo.) Here she is from Bronte on the western slope with glorious pistachio trees in the foreground. Pistachios love the mineral and saline rich volcanic soil of Mamma Etna. It makes them taste so good! That’s why Sicilians invented pistachio pesto to go on pasta! Learn…

  • Let’s Make Pistachio Pesto Together Online

    Next Saturday, Learn to Make Pistachio Pesto, Cavatelli Pasta, and Sicilian Orange Salad online! Pistachio nuts (which are actually seeds) come from a tree that was brought to Italy from Syria during ancient Roman times. The trees, which have the peak production of their fruit at about 20 years of age, like dry climates with…

  • Yes, Brioche Con Gelato for Breakfast

    In the summer, this is breakfast in Sicily: brioche con gelato … or gelato in a brioche. The brioche, when it’s done right, is sweet and formed like a breast. It represents your mother’s milk (no kidding). Pistacchio gelato is my favorite. Pictured here, when the pistachios are organic and the gelato all natural, this…

  • Dear Mamma Etna

    Mount Etna, one year ago, from a pistachio farm in Bronte, the city of pistachios… The locals call her Mamma Etna.

  • Nutty, Salty, And So Good: Pizza In Sicily

    Live from Sicily! You know you are in Sicily when there is crushed pistachio on the pizza. Oh, my… My diet success of recent months is going to be hard to keep up these next couple of weeks. Yes, *fresh* pistachio!

  • Where The Pistachio Grows

    This weekend is the Pistachio Festival in Bronte, a town world renowned for its pistachio cultivation. The mineral-rich lava stone-soil on Mount Etna’s Western slopes, photographed from a pistachio farm I visited with a private, custom tour I led in May, offers fertile environs for the trees to grow.

  • The Real Thing Is Brownish Green

    Yesterday, a friend asked me if the color of pistachio gelato made with real pistachios is not bright green (which indicates food coloring was used), but a more brownish green color. The answer is yes, it is brownish green! Here’s my second breakfast (Yes, Sicilians eat this for breakfast.) when I was at Valley of…