How do you write a delicious book — a novel that makes readers hungry as they turn pages on their couch? You have to start with eating all of the food while you write. About five years ago I set out ...

There are so many famous foods in Sicily you really have to try while there. Don’t think because you’ve had Italian food that you have experienced Sicilian food. It really is a world of its own. I was ...

Sicily — the largest island in the Mediterranean and one of Italy’s 20 regions — is my favorite part of the country. You name it, Sicily has it. It boasts beaches with sparkling, turquoise blue water, ...

Also known as the Royal Palace, the Palazzo dei Normanni is the oldest royal residence in Europe. Now home to the Sicilian ...

The history behind food is what has always drawn Melissa Muller into wanting to discover and share gastronomic antiquity with people. As an anthropologist and chef, she has owned restaurants in New ...

At the cafe Ke Palle Arancine d’Autore, chef Guiseppe Di Forti rolls and deep-fried balls of gooey, cheesy, parboiled rice to make arancine, a street food favorite in Sicily. It is “perhaps the queen ...

Sicily closes out 2025 with two new Slow Food Presidia: the Zaituna olive and the Gentili di Sicilia grains. Both represent ...

We drove to Modica for chocolate and Jews. The chocolate we found, but the Jews, not a trace. Were we, like Rick in Casablanca, misinformed? The woman in the tourist information office told us, ...

Adventures by Disney, part of the Walt Disney Company, unveiled its latest vacation itineraries, and they all take place in the land of cannoli and The White Lotus. The company operates group tours on ...

“Our food philosophy is not trying to cook like you would in Sicily but cook like a Sicilian would in Chicago.” Credit: Kristen Mendiola In the Before Times, Daniela Vitale and Steven Jarczyk made a ...

Sicily, now a hot travel destination, is also the theme of 11 South, a new restaurant that opens Tuesday on South Fullerton Avenue in downtown Montclair. Chef-owner Joseph Catalano of Teglia Pizza, ...