Sicily Scene

In Catania at the end of November Every now and then, in this seemingly never-ending Covid situation, I get stopped in my tracks with fear a...

Throughout this post, I shall be posting links rather than videos as there are no official clips, as yet, on youtube, presumably for c...

Many of you will know that I am a great fan of MasterChef Italia , which has recently made a welcome return for its sixth season on Italian...

The year that has just ended began, for me, in the worst possible way, with the loss of my darling Simi on January 8th. In the days and wee...

Finding myself with time on my hands in Siracusa a few weeks ago, I naturally entered a bookshop but, unusually, nothing cried "Read me...

Tonight I was hoping to be able to bring you my insights into this year's MasterChef Italia , which held its final last night, but...

Oh dear, oh dear - the honour of Sicily has been besmirched and this time it is very serious as it involves food:  it is all about a 30-sec...

As regular readers will know, I have enjoyed all three series of MasterChef Italia and have written about the programme several time...

I've mentioned before that I'm not fond of Thursdays , partly because Thursday is not Friday and partly because it's - well, Th...

MasterChef Italia logo - Wikipedia Italia Thursday night, as I mentioned at New Year, is teley night in this household and I sit for...

As I've mentioned many times, it's been a bad year for me, so let's start with this: My personal disaster of the year It...

The more eagle-eyed among my regular readers may have noticed that lately, I haven't been posting on Thursday evenings, a fact which ma...

Tonight the new series of Masterchef Italia begins and it's as much fun watching the judges - kindly but honest Bruno Barbieri, the ...

MasterChef Italia logo - Wikipedia I have always preferred radio to television but one TV programme I used to enjoy in the UK was Master...