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    Sicilian Food: Recipes from Italy's Abundant Isle

    By Mary Taylor Simeti

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    About this ebook

    The definitive guide to Sicilian cooking filled with authentic, hard-to-find recipes from this sun-drenched island.
     
    Gleaned from the author’s friends, family, and acquaintances on the island of Sicily, Sicilian Food is a delicious journey through the food, traditions, and recipes of this corner of the world.
     
    Mary Taylor Simeti, an American who married a Sicilian, set out to discover the food of her husband firsthand. She haunted former convents and palaces where Palermo’s libraries have been maintained. She tested each ancient recipe herself and updated the methods, providing clear and easy-to-follow directions. The book reflects the unique culture of Sicily, both the external influences of a series of conquerors and the domestic changes brought about by peasant, clergy, and aristocrat alike.
     
    There are recipes using the vegetable abundance of the Sicilian landscape, recipes for ice cream or granita, and recipes with names like Virgins’ Breasts and Chancellor’s Buttocks. Rich with history, the book draws from Sicilian archives and museums and quotes from Homer, Plato, Apicius, Lampedusa, and Pirandello—offering not only a culinary adventure but also an experience that feels like traveling to Sicily.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 19, 2009
    ISBN9781908117915
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    • 4/5
      A recipe book with long, wonderfully helpful introductions to the various categories of Sicilian food. I recommend reading it together with Simeti's companion book on Sicily On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal. (Read my review of both books there.)

      I don't envision myself actually making any of these dishes (but then, who knows?), but I certainly know what I am going to order on my next visit to Sicily's many wonderful restaurants. Heartily recommended as reading material for any planned trip to Sicily.
    • 5/5
      This book is a treasure...filled with information about the history of Sicilian Cuisine and recipes. I used it for research for a class on Mediterranean Cuisine and was fascinated by all the information. It is true that the history of the island of Sicily can be found in its kitchen cupboards as each "occupying civilization" impacted the food items and eating habits of the people...for good or bad.
    • 5/5
      Pomp and Sustenance is a book for those who want not only recipes but the world they come from. Fascinating and delightful reading!
    • 5/5
      Excellent cookbook for Sicilian cooking. There are very few recipes or books for Sicilian cooking. This book includes dialy meals as well as special holiday recipes.Everything from antipasto to gelato! This would be better in hardcover for use during cooking.The softcover has very good binding,but not very convenient for use during cooking. Excellent quality book.
    • 4/5
      How good it feels to immerse myself in the warm, welcoming world of Sicilian cooking and food ritual. It's a place I love going to, and this book gave me a lot of historical insight into things that left me verschmeckled on my visit.The recipes, oh goodness, the recipes! They sound like food porn, they are so good. I am not the first to experience this, as the following quote from an 18th-century French traveler shows:"Almost all the ragouts {sauces} of the Syracusans are composed of pork meat, an indigestible food {!}, which can do no other than whip up the blood, heat it and render it into a state of orgasm and continual effervescence." (p157)Now I have eaten a lot of pork (bad, nasty pun at your own risk) over the past 50 years and I have YET to have errrmmm this particular experience. What in Heaven's name are they feeding these pigs, and how do I get some?!When I was through fanning myself, I continued into the joyously brimming recipe sections that followed, describing cannoli, pasta alla carrettiera, and a timballo di maccheroni bianco, which features in a superbly sensual passage of The Leopard, that delightful Sicilian novel. I want to see if I can reproduce the "...masses of piping hot, glistening macaroni, to which the meat juice gave an exquisite hue of suede."
    • 4/5
      Recommended - for tasty modern recipes and fascinating discussion of culture.
    • 5/5
      The best English language, general interest book I have come across. The bibliography is useful for further, more detailed, research.
    • 5/5
      As rich in historical detail as it is in wonderful authentic Sicilian recipes!