Sicily Scene

Well, here we are in September, a melancholy month in some ways - not quite the end of summer but not quite autumn either. At least here in ...

Suddenly, in Sicily, the roadside lorries teem with different kinds of fruit, most of which you can purchase by the crate. The little Et...

A pretty song from Catania's own Carmen Consoli : Carmen Consoli - Ottobre

Real: Not real but a pretty display in the greengrocer's:

Marina di Modica "I'm sad to be going back to university because it means leaving the sea", said a young man of my acq...

The end of summer means the disappearance of these but heralds the appearance of these and calls for a special salad, don...

Pomegranate and stracciatella

Today, for Sicilians has been a day of brutto tempo [bad weather], there having been a bit of wind. But just look at the blue sky we h...

When I need comfort food, as I often do these days, pasta al forno is high on my list of possibilities. At the weekend, I decided I wanted...

The other day I wanted to make an autumnal  risotto with particularly Sicilian ingredients and risotto purists had better look away now! ...

We are coming up to the Tutti i Santi holiday and, on 2nd November, I Morti , when people remember the dead and that means the pastry shops...

What better way to welcome autumn than by preparing this dish of pumpkin roasted with pancetta and rosemary?  The recipe is in the Octobe...

I hope you enjoy this self-deprecating little song as much as I do: Fabrizio Moro - Ottobre

I love to see mounds of chestnuts on sale and to catch the aroma of their roasting as I walk home on autumn evenings in Sicily.  Brocco...

The weather has broken and there is thunder as I write.  It is, of course, Persephone and her mother ensuring that Sicily remains fertile. ...

This morning I espied these lovely black grapes on sale for 3 euros a crate and this mound of chestnuts: This evening, as I strolled back fr...

I liked this display in a local supermarket this morning.