Experience Sicily

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  • Let’s Make Sicilian Fig Cookies!

    Join us online this Thursday, December 14, for a workshop to learn how to make Sicilian fig cookies aka Bucellati, Cudduredde, Cuccidati. These fig cookies are synonymous with the holidays. The complex combination of ingredients points to Sicily’s multi-cultural past. Register and learn more at https://experiencesicily.com/make-sicilian-fig-cookies/

  • The Mystery Of Eyes On A Plate

    You can easily identify Santa Lucia because she holds eyes on a plate. In my last post I mentioned that she denied her promised dowery and hand in marriage to a young pagan man during a period in the early 4th century when Christianity was illegal. Well, she wanted to devote herself to Jesus, and…

  • NY Times Travel Publishes 36 Hours In Palermo

    This weekend’s New York Times Travel features “36 Hours in Palermo” (A New edition, since the last one that was published in 2015). It offers ideas for some off-the-beaten-path things to see and do in a city that I love and that I spend a lot of time in each year (I even wrote and…

  • Mimmo Weaves His Fishing Net In Sicily

    This is Mimmo. He was kind enough to allow me to take his picture. Today, I’m starting our Photography in Sicily photo adventure with Don Toothaker and Hunt’s Photo, so I was inspired the other day to take a portrait of Mimmo when I peeked in his workshop, where he was making his fishing net.…

  • Family Lunch in Caccamo, Sicily

    I was blessed to spend today, New Year’s Day, with my family in Caccamo. This is the view from the agriturismo where we had lunch (NB a three and a half hour lunch!). We ate local sausages and cheeses cultivated and created from these hills. We also celebrated my cousin Tanina’s 80th birthday, and of…

  • Not The Cyclops, But Etna

    These rock stacks are volcanic. The beginnings of Etna, they were pushed up from the sea floor. So, contrary to the story from Homer’s Odyssey, they were not rocks thrown after Odysseus and his men by the cyclops. I recently finished listening to the Emily Wilson translation of the Odyssey read by Claire Danes. It…

  • Making Your Sicily Dreams Come True

    I love learning about Sicily’s 3000 years of human history, its various cuisines and folk art, its myths and saints, and of course, the warm hospitality of the locals. What I also love is discovering beautiful properties where we can host our clients or they can stay when they travel on their own. My colleague…

  • Sicily Sets the Stage

    Today is an important day in Sicily, when all eyes are on the arcipelago during its election for the regional president. Analysts say that the results of Sicily’s elections today could be a measure of Italy’s political climate for its national elections slated for March 2018.

  • Sicily in Washington, DC This Weekend

    I’m thrilled to be in Washington, DC this weekend at the National Italian American Foundation’s Expo Siciliana, part of the annual Gala Weekend. Come find Experience Sicily in Exhibit Hall A at the Marriott Wardman Park and say hello! Then, stick around to hear Villa Palagonia! Joe Ravo and I will be shaking the house…