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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

TAORMINA, ITALY: View of Mount Etna volcano from ruins of the ancient Greek Theatre amphitheatre - Teatro Greco - of Taormina, East Sicily, Italy. Alessandro Malfitana was raised in Linguaglossa, a ...

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, ...

Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, has been growing grapes and producing wine for more than 3,000 years. While American consumers are more familiar with Prosecco, Chianti and other ...