Tag: sicily food travel
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Simple, Seasonal, and So Good
For dinner on Tuesday night, my cousins went straight to my heart by treating me to a meal at Trattoria Don Ciccio in Bagheria, one of my top favorites on the island. I enjoyed bucatini pasta with a simple sauce of Romanesco broccoli with pine nuts, olive oil, onions, and breadcrumbs.
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Selinunte Brought To Life
Before leaving for the US today, yesterday I found a few minutes to see the artifacts from Selinunte, Europe’s largest archeological park in southwestern Sicily, at the ever-under-renovation Salinas Archeological Museum in Palermo. I was thrilled to see the metopes from the temples, like this one pictured from Temple C. Dated to be from c.…
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Meet An Artist in Palermo
I’ve spent a busy couple of days in Palermo seeing cousins, doing some business, and scouting out artists’ shops and workshops for our Experience Sicily clients to consider visiting when they are in Italy’s 2018 Capital of Culture. For example, if you are a knitter, and I know some of you are, you could spend…
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The Artistry of the Opera dei Pupi
Yesterday, our last official day of our Enchanting Sicily tour, we spent the evening in Palermo seeing the UNESCO recognized Opera dei Pupi at the Argento family’s theater. I’ve become such a fan of this whimsical form of entertainment! When you allow yourself to be a kid, you will be amazed by Orlando’s adventures and…
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Shopping for Ceramics in Sicily
Last evening, on our way from Taormina to Palermo, we stopped for some shopping in Santo Stefano di Camastra, one of Sicily’s ceramics centers. Come “shop” with me! Watch my Facebook Live broadcast, during which I explain the significance of the ceramic Moor’s head pots, which we’ve seen throughout the island this week. When you…
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Our Morning on Etna
There are many ways to visit Etna, Europe’s largest, most active volcano that is the star of the show in northeast Sicily. It’s advised to go in the early morning because the sky is clearer of smoke and haze from Mamma Etna’s (aka, Mongibello) ongoing venting from the top’s 5 or 6 craters. During our…
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Take a Passeggiata in Taormina
Take a passeggiata with me down Taormina’s Corso Umberto! Shops, cafès, charming alleyways, balconies draped with flowers and ceramics… It’s bewitching! Watch my Facebook Live broadcast on our Experience Sicily Facebook page… Then join us in May for our Myths & Mysteries tour, which starts here! We’re offering an additional $100 incentive per person for…
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The Baker and the Cheese Maker
We spent a glorious day in Sant’Angelo Muxaro today with our host Val di Kam! What is in Sant’Angelo? you ask? The answer: Local people who want to share a few moments with you. Zio Lillo showed us his remarkable precepio; Maria and Angelo, the bakers, offered us their almond cookies, pane cunzato, and buccelatti…