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The Grand Tour Part 7

We began the day at the Cusa quarries in Campobello di Mazara, the source of Selinunte's stonework.  A beautiful new museum, totally empty of tourists, answered the question "just how did they manage ...read more

Region: Sicilia

Tags: history, museum, hotel, restaurant, recipe, market, Atlantic Magazine

The Grand Tour Part 5

The scenery on the way to Licata was uninspiring, fields of plastic greenhouses and a huge refinery outside Gela, which has to be the ugliest city in Sicily.  But there was an ...read more

Region: Sicilia

Tags: restaurant, hotel, history, museum, Atlantic Magazine

Matchless Hot Chocolate

The first European to consume chocolate was probably Columbus on his fourth trip, in 1502, anchored off the Central American shore. He was unimpressed. Cortés, in 1519, recognized that the Aztec drink, ...read more

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pasta in another shape

If "the discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star" (so said Brillat-Savarin in 1826), then the rediscovery of a pasta shape from the ...read more

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