Sicilian Food Archives

In Taormina, taste your granita at Isola Bella

Posted on 22/07/2019 (23/02/2025) by Grazia Musumeci

If you already love Taormina, the beautiful medieval “queen of the Ionian Sea”, you might forget it for a moment when you will see her little daughter, Isola Bella. This “Beautiful Island” will charm you as soon as you will admire it from the highway or from the view points, up on Taormina’s hill. You […]

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 […]

Your first time in Sicily? What specialties you shouldn’t miss!

Posted on 06/07/2015 (23/02/2025) by Etna Excursions

The entire Mediterranean area offers dishes with flavours that are particularly intense under the southern sun, and the island of Sicily is certainly no exception. On the contrary: Regarding the cuisine Sicilians tend to be perfectionists. Good food in pleasant companyone of the most important aspects of the culture. All over the island, this rule […]