Another wonderful retreat last weekend, the Sicilian Heritage and Hatha Yoga Retreat, was held at Ocean Shores, Washington. We hosted a fabulous group and offered homemade Sicilian food. I was inspired from my recent trip to Sicily. Our yoga weekend at the coast was one filled with great group dynamics, [...]
Simply put FOOD IS LOVE. Food comes from the earth and to love food is to love the earth. Food is culture, a story on your plate that unveils thousands of years of history. Sicily is known as the SPICE OF ITALY. Sicily today is the product of a melting [...]
Our guide Graziella recited a poem, written by an anonymous poet in ancient times, which describes the legend of how Sicily came to be. She recited it first in the Sicilian dialect and then translated it into English. I cannot find the Sicilian words, but it was the loveliest of [...]
In 1958, Domenico Modugno, singer from the small Sicilian island of Lampedusa, wrote the famous song Volare. My guess is that most everyone knows the song, right? But what most people outside of Italy don’t know is that the original title of the song was Di Blu, Dipinto di Blu, [...]
How about if I make this all photos? That way I can post it without delay and get to sleep! Photos from our fabulous last day in Siracusa at the market, il mercato, where we had so much fun chatting with the vendors and taking it all in: terrace [...]
