Taste & Knowledge

Voci da Favignana

And suddenly the Landing of Ulysses appears

by Umberto Rizza
Continuing to walk quietly, but with care, as required by the kind of excursion we are doing, there appears in front of us the Village "L'Approdo di Ulisse", showing us its architectural style. Its white houses, immersed in the beautiful and fragrant pine forest that surrounds them, do not disturb the landscape, rather they fit perfectly into the silent atmosphere of this place. By now many people in search of the true roots of Mediterranean...Read more
Voci da Favignana

Botany in Favignana

by Umberto Rizza
Tratto da: U. Rizza, Una passeggiata per Favignana alla scoperta del suo territorio e della sua flora medicinale. The road is the rough one that leads to the sharp cliffs north of Favignana. You immerse yourself in the wild atmosphere of Faraglione almost without realizing it, because the sea (whose color goes from cobalt blue to blue, to emerald green with shades that make the interweaving of the three colors incredible) attracts our attention...Read more
Landscapes and tastings

A skyscraper in Favignana

by Guido Conti
There is a hidden "skyscraper", invisible to the eyes. You have to go and look for it in the northeast part of the island, following the dusty road that leads from Cala Rossa towards Cavallo. We must stop and look down. The quarry looks like a cave of hell unveiling itself to the curious eyes. The skyscraper rises majestically, a gigantic monument to the toil and the work of the quarrymen. The people of Favignana, accustomed to dig the rock, cut...Read more
A different view

Japanese "King lovers"

by Manuela Soressi
Tokyo, May 2015, working dinner at the 42nd floor of a skyscraper in Shiodome. When the Japanese colleague sitting to my right turns out that i am coming from Parma by politely silent becomes more politely talkative. It speaks to me of an excellent food product that has discovered when he came here a few years ago and that with his words it becomes almost the subject of a Miyazaki’s film. He tells me that, were it not for the “raw material” that...Read more
Landscapes and tastings

Pontiggia’s Culatello

by Guido Conti
Giuseppe Pontiggia (1934-2004) is one of the greatest post II World War Italian writers. His writing is characterized by the tension of the brevitas. What comes out are smart stories, often taken from everyday life, and this made of Pontiggia an international master. The brevitas also shapes his work as a reader and as acute and sharp critic: in texts published first on newspapers and then collected in successful volumes such as The Garden of...Read more
A different view

The Italian job, London

by Manuela Soressi
The golden and sour Via Emilia goes to London. Will she be the new queen of beers?Read more