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Visit Sicily with You, Me and Sicily

Alfred Zappala and Eszter Vajada Sicily

The other day I got an email from Eszter Vajda about the You, Me and Sicily project she’s working on with Alfred Zappala. The You, Me and Sicily project is a series of short video documentaries all about Sicily – just the thing if you’d like to visit Sicily. At present there are 31 episodes. There […]

Caffeine Fuelled Sicily’s Crazy Coffee Spending

The parliament of the autonomous region of Sicily, a part of Italy, spends around €800,000 a year on coffee. Sicilian parliamentarians claim an average of 27 coffees a day on expenses. Not only is the spending, revealed in today’s Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper, utterly unbelievable, so is the fact that Sicily’s well-paid politicians claim back […]

I Beddi – Folk Music from Sicily

I Beddi - Sicilian Folk Music

I Beddi are a prize winning folk music group from Sicily which was founded in 2005 by Sicilian musicians Davide “Tamburo di Aci” Urso and Simona Di Gregorio. I Beddi’s songs are in a mixture of Sicilian dialect and Italian. The group’s most recent album “E falla bedda la ninnaredda – canti e cunti del […]

How Blood Washes Blood in Italy

Under the heat of the Sicilian sun, blood certainly does wash blood, as is graphically illustrated by Frank Viviano in his book of the same name. Brought up in Detroit of Sicilian/American parents, Viviano used to listen to stories told by his grandfather about his family’s origins. Viviano’s grandfather said that his great, great grandfather (aka “The Monk”) […]

Scintillating Music from Sicily -The Blue Purple Bees

Coming from Catania, Sicily, the Blue Purple Bees are an Italian pop/rock band who write and sing their music in English. The band are Drew on vocals, guitars, keyboards, Sten on lead guitar and Chacondar on drums. Blue Purple Bees’ influences, which can be fairly easily heard in their music, well, I think so, are […]

A Revolution in Sicily

Rosario Crocetta

After the collapse of Sicily’s regional government, elections were held last Sunday to vote for a new one.  While regional elections are often run of the mill affairs, this particular election was regarded as being an indicator of how general elections in Italy might go in Spring 2013. Italians in general place little trust in […]

Guess Where in Italy? Part 4 – The Answer

Once again, reader Nora of Enchanting Italy put her web searching skills to good use and manage to successfully identify the church shown in this week’s the ‘Guess Where in Italy?’ post. The church shown is San Giorgio Cathedral (Duomo) which can be found in Ragusa Ibla, Sicily.

An Arancini Convert

Some are cone shaped, some are round, all are orange, and the recipe originated in Sicily. Arancini are often made with rice, peas, ragu, and mozzarella. They certainly sound quite appetizing, and they look it too.