Menu
1. What’s in a name? Everything! In Italy all restaurants are ristorante. They serve, guess what, Italian food. Some better …
1. Cozze Siciliane Italian and Sicilian mussels are Mediterranean creatures. A bit smaller than their Spanish Atlantic cousins. And midgets …
1. Overkill Is there any fun in mutilating vegetables? Fennel is often the victim of such unrestrained violence. Boiled, covered …
1. The Italian bar The conundrum of what and how to order in a bar is typical Italian. Mainly because …
1. Mandorle amare, bitter almonds Mandorle amare, bitter almonds are a forbidden fruit. By law. Sale is illegal in the …
1. Finocchio in the field Finocchio, fennel, is a plant in the carrot family. It is native to Mediterranean region. …
1. Traveling with Santa Lucia Santa Lucia was born and died in Syracuse. And that is where  got buried. After …
1. Biancolilla Biancolilla is probably the oldest existing olive variety in Italy. It may originate from Caltabellotta, Agrigento. The name …
1. Pricy Saffron is expensive. Very expensive. There are two main reasons that make the price soar. It is highly …
Breaded cutlet, cotoletta alla Palermitana Not just ‘cotoletta’
This blog is by no means a journalistic product. Rather than periodic we issue our articles on a sporadic basis, depending on the availability and readiness of new articles. We can therefore not be considered an editorial product as defined in law n. 62 of 2001.
