A Birthday Banquet in Mezzojuso (a little village close to Palermo)

"Could I come with you on Sunday? I can help you". She surprised of that unexpected question but that it gave her an instant of happiness and so she answered in instinctive way and with some embarrassment "Yes, of course, you can." But she changed her mind immediately after, not because she did not want him with her or it was not a pleasure for her have his company, rather just the opposite, but she was afraid of herself.

She knew how she metamorphoses herself while is working in the kitchen, if something had not gone for the correct way she would have been able to have aggressive reactions which would be interpreted badly. They had been frequenting for two days, perhaps three, he didn't know her and she is not be liked to show him hers "dark side of the moon" he would be to do a wrong or led astray idea. But she didn't want to give up spending some time with that man was "fallen" in her life almost accidentally.

The Pasta Reale (Sicilian marzipan) and the history of the “Picureddi Pasquali ”

Every occasion is good in Sicily to make party and to organize "schiticchi[1]" (literally “eat too much”) and in every schiticchio that respects the rules can not lack for the sweets.

The confectionery tradition in Sicily is as ancient as the history of the island and is, as the whole Sicilian gastronomy, a melting pot of ingredients, techniques and preparations left each other in inheritance from the so many dominations.

The Easter period is perhaps one of the best of the year for all the gluttons. Every province, city and family preserves their own tradition, own recipes and during this festivity it is assisted on our tables to a real triumph of the glucidis. Along the list: pupi cu' l’uovu, cassate, cassatedde, quaresimali, cudduri, dita degli apostoli, cannoli and still so many others. Among all, however, it detaches for its zoomorphic form the Easter Lamb of Pasta of Almonds or Sicilian Marzipan.