There is probably something very, very wrong with you, if you can go to Italy and not get excited about the food.
I’m sure that for most of us a holiday in Italy revolves around food. My first, in Venice a few years ago, was hampered by a shoestring budget and lucrative prices, so I subsisted on plain pizza and doughy snacks from the bakery. This time, with a little more money in my pocket, I was off to Sicily, where a mountain of exquisite, affordable food awaited me. There was an actual mountain too: Mount Etna, Europe’s largest volcano, and various other wonders, including Taormina’s ancient Greek-Roman amphitheatre, but the food was definitely its main draw for me (definitely not the roads…)
Everyone from the Arabs to the Normans have governed Sicilia throughout the years, and all have left their mark on the menu in one way or another. Moreover, the island itself is incredibly fertile, given the Mediterranean climate it enjoys. Most of the ingredients in any dish you eat in Sicily will most probably have been grown, picked or caught just a few miles down the road. This is Italian food at its absolute best.
Here are five of the tastiest treats I got my teeth into in Sicily:
Cannoli
