Sicily: Cuisine, Culture and Tradition

Sicily is often referred to as a crossroad. Indeed it is a place where geographically and culturally civilizations met and mel...

Green tomatoes from my California garden. My husband and I have an inside joke.  I call myself a “southern” woman, which, b...

It is my experience that in the United States, pistachio is more likely to be associated with the Middle East than Sicily. Yet Sicily acco...

History is replete with instances in which the suffering of human wars brings together disparate people for the greater g...

Nonna Betta logo features a scroll  made of pasta and rolling pins The Jewish Quarter of Rome is an area that I have always enjoyed and...

For some time now we have been sharing our mutual appreciation for all things Sicilian.   This week I am traveling to my home in Sicily, a...

 Bread baked in a traditional Sicilian oven. There is a snippet of a poem that lingers in my memory from a long forgotten author. It...