“With gestures you pray and grant, you praise and blame, you stroke and despise up to compose whole discourses”. The ethnologist from Palermo was among the first to highlight, in his majestic collection, how important gestures are in communication. He noted the surprise reactions of foreigners already in the 19th century

Even in face of COVID-19 reading in Catania is still as enjoyable and convenient as ever

The Greeks and then the Romans were the first to use beans for cooking, as attested in the comedy The Frogs by Aristophanes and in the works of Pliny According to the tradition, ‘u paìsi du maccu (i.e. the village of the maccu) would be Raffadali, in the province of Agrigento. To the inhabitants...

For those who live in Sicily, it is not necessary to travel overseas to discover the origins and some curiosities related to the pumpkin, since in the southernmost region of Italy the so-called cucùzza has a lot to tell Autumn is the season of Halloween, All Saints Day and … Pumpkins! These fruits of...

It is a simple dish with a strong Mediterranean flavor, consisting of a few ingredients and creating a symphony for taste buds. There are no certainties about its origins: some people associate it to a tribute to Vincenzo Bellini, while others to…. Nino Martoglio’s sense of humor Short pasta (generally macaroni), tomato sauce, fried...

With cheap magic boxes filled with surprising content, that would otherwise end up in the garbage, Too Good to Go allows trading activities and customers to give a contribution to the world. A novelty that has just arrived in Catania

An example of Sicilian versatility is given by the term cùddura, which indicates a type of loaf widespread in general in the South of Italy and whose etymology comes from the Greek. Surprisingly, it has distinct meanings according to the province where it is eaten

The cooperative Agorà, which currently manages this site, led us to discover Sciacca’s magical place. “It is not a castle, but an olive grove and an almond one with three thousand heads carved in stone by Filippo Bentivegna, the former owner of the farm. The artist was called ‘your excellence’ and claimed that the...

Present both in the festive home tables and in the butcher shops of Sicily (the so-called chiànchi), this dish is widespread also in some areas of Campania and Calabria, which were once part of the Kingdom of Naples. Its diffusion testifies to the reliability of the ancient saying “du majàli un si jetta nenti”,...

Beyond the cries of traders and the crowd of people, the so-called ‘caves’ are hidden within the Church of St. Gaetano, where once martyrs such as Saint Agatha were buried Piazza Carlo Alberto has long been the stage of one of the largest city markets in Sicily. Situated in the town-center of Catania, it...