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Mount Etna in autumn: the Route of Wine

Posted on 23/09/2024 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Mount Etna in autumn is one of the most beautiful landscapes in Sicily. It certainly cannot compete with the wonderful “red leaves” of the Nebrodi or Madonie woods, but there are routes full of atmosphere and poetry for all tourists to love. We are referring specifically to the so-called “Strada del Vino” (Route of Wine). […]

Etnean recipes for a Carnival dinner

Posted on 08/02/2021 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

In the year of Covid pandemics, which has not ended yet, all the parties that include gatherings have been suspended. Such as the Mardi Gras Carnival, for example. Thursday will already be the opening of the celebrations that will lead to the craziest party of the year in the weekend. In 2021, however, this festival […]

Discovering Maletto and Mt Etna’s western side

Posted on 27/04/2020 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

Maletto is small and lovely. Just like … a strawberry! In fact this is the town of strawberries, the best in Italy! They cultivate them here on the rich and fertile soil of Mt Etna which gives the product a high and protected quality. Maletto was named after the noble man who founded it, back […]

Prickly Pears, a sweet “Sicilian secret”

Posted on 02/09/2019 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

The prickly pear, as the word itself says, is not a Sicilian fruit. It was “discovered” by the first Europeans who colonized America – then mistakenly called India – and initially it was not thought at all as a food. It was exhibited in gardens and botanical parks as a curiosity to amaze guests or […]

What is a “Trunzu di Aci” and why you should taste it

Posted on 15/07/2019 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

When the people of Catania want to needle and bother the inhabitants of the nearby baroque town of Acireale, with whom they have always been in a rivalry, they say tyey are “teste di trunzu” (cabbage heads). That indicates their stubbornness, their being hard-headed like the trunzu cabbage that grows on their territory. Besides the […]