Experience Sicily

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  • Stirring Things Up In Sicily | Stirring Sicily, Day 1

    Live from Sicily! Experience Sicily and Chef Antonino Elia of Zest Cooking School kicked off our cooking, food, and wine tour, Stirring Sicily, this evening with dinner at Don Ciccio in Bagheria. I love this place, which is under my cousins’ house! Si mangia benissimo qua! Traditional Bagherese cuisine including pasta con le sarde and…

  • Perspectives In Palermo

    Live from Sicily! Perspectives of Palermo… A magnificent day on my own seeing colleagues, family, friends, and sites. Tomorrow we begin our Stirring Sicily cooking and wine tour with Chef Nino Elia!

  • Flying To Sicily

    Ecco ci sono! And just like that, I’m in Italy for my next tour and adventure in Sicily! My ritual, once I get through customs and close to my transfer gate at my stop over airport is to have a cornetto and cappuccino. It helps me (somewhat) recover from the overnight flight from New York.…

  • Another Of Sicily’s Heroes, Father Pino Puglise

    Giuseppe “Pino” Puglisi was killed in Palermo on September 15, 1993, his 56th birthday. A courageous defender of the poor in the Sicilian capital’s inner city neighborhood of Brancaccio, Blessed Father Puglisi worked tirelessly to convince young people that there was a better life than organized crime. He was extremely outspoken about the Mafia and…

  • The Grapes Tell Us When

    The grapes are getting ready for the harvest! Almost time to make the mosto for the wine.

  • We Are All Connected

    We are all connected. As a New Yorker who was living and working in Manhattan on September 11, 2001, today, I remember. I don’t like to talk much about it. But what I do like to recall are the days and weeks afterwards, when people were so kind to each other. We understood that we…

  • Dance the Tarantella with me this Sunday in Tappan, NY

    Whenever I have an opportunity to dance, I take it! This one was in May, during our Myths & Mysteries of Sicily: As Above/So Below tour when we were at Villa Palagonia in Bagheria, Sicily. You don’t have to be in Sicily or wait until May 2020 for our next tour to dance a tarantella…

  • Baroque Balcony In Ragusa

    Balcony with musician at center, Ragusa

  • Celebrating The Madonna On September 8

    September 8 is considered the birthday of the Blessed Mother by the Catholic Church. As a result, throughout Sicily this weekend, there are festivals to celebrate the Madonna. It’s not clear why this date was officially chosen as such; however, because this time of the agricultural year is traditionally a major harvest season, for centuries…