Italy's anti-cancer 'supertomato'
Campania creation helps beat disease, expert says
A 'supertomato' created by Italian scientists is the perfect food for helping keep cancer at bay, the head of the World Foundation of Urology said on Tuesday. Launching Prostate Cancer Week in Italy, Mauro Dimitri said the 'supertomato' created...
Pascolo Verde, when the love
for Sicily turns into a company
Pascolo Verde It S.r.l. , the green pasture, was born thanks to the gathering of subjects with different backgrounds, but with one element in common: the creation of a line...
Terre di Miele, between Sicily
and Calabria a century-long
tradition still continues
A natural food that combines sweetness and its exclusive taste to important anti-bacterial and energetic qualities. We are talking about honey, a natural product that man has cultivated for centuries thanks to the bee...
Palermo, world capital of wine
In April Brussels World Wine Fair
Palermo, world capital of wine. The Brussels World Wine Fair organization and Italy decided to organize the 17th edition of this...
Buffalo mozzarella authenticity at risk
"Watered down with cows' milk"
Italian Agriculture Minister Luca Zaia announced on Tuesday that he had placed a consortium of producers which guarantees buffalo mozzarella quality under appointed administration because of its failure to ensure the traditional cheese's authenticity...
Conte Alambicco di Sicilia,
the taste of excellence
Conte Alambicco di Sicilia grappa distillates embody the spirit of Sicily, with its myths and history, burning with passion and the heat of the sun, and contain its seductive character...
Monster truffle up for auction. Satellite sale of 900g
tuber in Rome, London, Moscow, Macao
The world's truffle-loving elite are gearing up for what looks set to be a nail-biting bidding war on Saturday when a giant white truffle goes under the hammer at an international auction. Weighing in at 900 grammes, the truffle is not a record breaker...
Naked sushi, the new frontier of the senses lands in Italy after the United States
Can eating a meal on a beautiful naked woman be considered a form of art? In Japan it has been practiced throughout the centuries and probably the lovers of the naked sushi...
Bad nutrition, 50% of Italians is overweight
The expert: “Let’s recuperate the Mediterranean diet”
Almost one Italian out of two is obese or overweight. This is the alarming result emerged during the fifth annual congress on “Food and health” that took place in Rome today, organized by Repubblica and Somedia. Professionals like doctors...
Naples pizza gets EU laurel Accolade will protect
it from inferior clones
Real Naples-style pizza on Wednesday received a European Union quality seal protecting it from imitations. The EU's quality...
Wine and sexuality: the benefits of Bacchus-Eros in one book
The connection between Bacchus and Eros has been one of most discussed and criticized topics in the history of humanity. Everyone has talked about it in different ways: from the most ignorant to the most cultured, from Leonardo da Vinci to...
A new white wine flows along Mount Etna. Barone
di Villagrande points
on the aging “Carricante”
A new white wine by Barone di Villagrande will soon arrive. It is called “Legno di Conzo”, a Carricante with a unique purity, after four...
The Avola almonds and the Sicilian pastry making
The charm of Noto in a granita
A baroque taste. But not the usual one. When you see it, you immediately understand, white, simple but you can already taste its intense and creamy flavour. Its scent, with its promises to be kept, fascinates. Just one teaspoon makes you wonder and...
The Trapani pesto, an antique taste
A dish with the colours and flavours of Sicily
An intense fragrance, that evokes all the colours and influences of Sicily. Just like different cultures merge, the ingredients of the Trapani pesto make up the tastes of the island. As it usually happens in Sicily, this sauce was imported and then revised...
by Stefania Brusca
All mad for pizza. In Italy
a market of 5 billion Euros
In 2008 an average of 56 million pizzas a week outside the home (some 3 billion a year) have been eaten in Italy. The data, which was...
Bread with panelle and “cazzilli”
The taste of old Palermo in a roll
A sunny day, a cold beer and a roll with panelle. You can buy them from a street-seller or at a shop, and while the taste of the chickpea flour melds with parsley and spices you can look towards the sea. Or maybe go for a walk in the old town centre...
by Stefania Brusca
Mushrooms, sublime danger
They sprout from one day to the next, without warning, they cover the woods making gourmets happy. Wood mushrooms, flap mushrooms, chantarelles, morels, blushers, these are just some of the names of the...
Chestnuts, a journey throughout history
between taste and passion
Did you know that in 1700 giving a lady chestnuts as a gift candied in sugar syrup (marron glacés) could have had a mischievous meaning? As for other fruits, even chestnuts hide aphrodisiac effects and the story is very old if we think that the Greeks...
aubergines
from Cinderella
to queen of the table
Aubergines arrived in Sicily in the XIII century thanks to Arab merchants, but their...
bottarga
The ancient taste of the Favignana bottarga
The caviar of the Mediterranean Sea, an ancient taste that brings...
pistachio
The emerald- green of the Bronte pistachio
The green gold of Bronte. A sweet, delicate taste, a unique emerald-green colour...
A recipe a day...
Rice with sausages
Ingredients for 4 people: 400 g. rice 300 g. sausages 1 carrot 1 onion 50 g. butter 3 tomatoes ½ glass of red wine Preparation: Remove the sausage from its...
Tagliatelle with amberjack, tuna or sword fish and olive oil
Fry the garlic with some olive oil. Add some amberjack, tuna or sword fish with some capers and black olives. Mix with a fork and season with black...
A recipe a day… Duck breast with citrus fruits
Ingredients: 600 g. duck breast, 10 shallots, 1 pink grapefruit, 2 oranges, 3 spoons of aromatic vinegar, half glass of dry white wine, 2 bay leaves, thyme, oil...
Spaghetti with olives stuffed with anchovies
Fry in a pan some cloves of garlic with extra virgin olive oil. Add some cherry tomatoes cut in halves and olives stuffed with anchovies and cut into slices...
Cazzilli
Ingredients for 4 people: 1 kg. potatoes, 1 clove of garlic, parsley, 2 eggs, bread crumbs, olive oil, salt and pepper. Preparation: Boil the potatoes, peel...
Pancakes filled with smoked fish and sour sauce
Ingredients: 600 g. milk; 200 g. buckwheat; 150 g. flour; one cube of yeast; 120 g. butter; three eggs; smoked tuna...
Baked turbot with lentil sauce
Ingredients for 6 people: * 1 turbot, 2 Kg. * 250 g. lentils * 50 g. bacon * 40 g. butter * 2 shallots * 1 glass of dry white wine * 25 cl fish stock * 1 glass...
Coconut biscuits
Ingredients: 250 g. coconut flour 100 g. rice flour 250 g. sugar 50 g. butter 3 eggs Preparation: Melt the butter in a bain-marie, then add the sugar, the...
Eggplants husband and wife
Ingredients: 2 large eggplants, 200 g. ham, 1 packet of sliced cheese, 2 eggs, bread crumbs, salt and pepper. Preparation: Rinse the eggplants, cut them into slices 5-centimetres-thick and place them in...
Chicken with honey and aromatic vinegar
Ingredients for 4 people: 2 chicken breasts 2 spoons of honey 200 ml. liquid cream Butter Pepper Salt Preparation: Cut the chicken into slices or into....
Yogurt cream
Ingredients for 4 people: 3 eggs, 3 small whole yogurts (better the creamy Greek one), 40 g. sugar, 1 cup of Marsala. Preparation: Beat the yolks with...
The farmer’s cauliflower
Ingredients for 4 people: 1 kg. organic cauliflower, 4 organic potatoes, 100 g. natural olives, 300 g. sausages, water, 3 cloves of garlic, 2-3 spoons of...
Sauté artichokes
Ingredients for 4 people: 8 artichokes 1 clove of garlic Parsley Vegetables stock 3 spoons of extra virgin oil Salt Half lemon juice Preparation: Clean...
Rice with potatoes and mussels
Ingredients for 4 people: 1 kg mussels, 400 g. rice, 3 onions, 6 tomatoes, 50 g. grated pecorino cheese, 1 clove of garlic, some parsley, celery...
The cubaita
Ingredients: 1 kg sesame, 600 g. honey, 300 g. sugar, 250 g. toasted almonds, orange peel. Preparation: Melt the honey in a pan with the sugar...
Pasta with zucchini and shrimps
Ingredients for 4 people: 400 g. pasta, 4 medium zucchini, 300 g. unshelled shrimps, 7-8 small tomatoes, white wine, garlic, extra virgin oil, red...
Zucchini flowers in batter
Ingredients: 25 courgette flowers, white flour, 4 eggs, extra virgin olive oil, salt Preparation: Pour the zucchini flowers into the eggs with the flour. If you...
Rice with vodka and salmon
Ingredients: 350 g. rice 2 small glasses of vodka 150 g. smoked salmon Chives Liquid cream Stock Butter Salt White pepper...
Cake with plums
Ingredients for 6 people: 1 dose of short crust pastry; 10 madeleines (Proust’s famous biscuits) or 6 sponge fingers; sugar; butter; flour; 600 g. plums...
Carrot cake
Ingredients for 4 people: 200 g. carrots, 200 g. unpeeled almonds, 200 g. malt, 175 wholemeal flour, 80 g. apples, 60 g. raisins, 3 spoons maize...
Chicken with honey and aromatic vinegar
Ingredients for four people: 2 chicken breasts 2 spoons of honey 200 ml. liquid cream 3 spoons of aromatic vinegar 1 knob of butter Pepper Salt ....
Risotto with pumpkin and mushrooms
Ingredients for 4 people: 4 cups of rice; 400 g. pumpkin; 500 g. mushrooms (freed are also good); ½ onion; oil; salt; black pepper; 3 tea spoons of...
Ricotta cake with chocolate
Ingredients for 6 people: 400 g. ricotta, 1 candied fruit (the one you prefer); 70 g. of dark chocolate; 2 egg whites; 100 g. icing sugar. Ingredients for the...
Neapolitan fried pizzas
Ingredients for 6 people: 650 g. flour; 35 g. yeast; 1200 g. ripen tomatoes; 250 g. mozzarella; 1 potato; 2 spoons oil; garlic; parsley; pepper; salt...
Pears with cream and chocolate ice-cream
Ingredients for 4 people: 2 Williams pears (around 300 g. in total); 1 orange; 1 stick of cinnamon; 200 g. chocolate ice-cream; 60 g. sugar; cream...
Chicken and spinach rolls
Ingredients for 4 people: 1 chicken breast (ask the butcher to slice it for you); 1 or 2 cloves of garlic; fresh or dry marjoram or parsley; 1 spoon or more...
Tagliatelle with artichokes
Ingredients for 4 people: 400 g. tagliatelle; 4 artichokes; 1 clove of garlic; 1 lemon; 5 spoons of olive oil; 40 g. butter; 1 spoon of mint; 1 spoon of...
A recipe a day… sfogliatelle with ricotta
Ingredients for the sfogliatelle with ricotta (4 people) For the pastry: 400 g. bran; 50 g. butter; salt; oil For the filling: 500 g. ricotta; 100 g. sugar...
master recipes
Lucrezia Borgia and tagliatelle
In only 39 years of life, the beautiful Lucrezia Borgia had three husbands, an uncountable number of lovers, eight legitimate children and one born outside...