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Sicilian sugar brioche

Sicilian sugar brioche At the beginning of September I went to Sicily for two days. My childhood home. Just two plentiful days, too few to do everything I wanted, enough to understand how the passing of time increases the distances inexorably. I live with a conflicted feeling, right there in my stomach. Something that pulls
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Sicilian scacciata

The “scacciata” is a sort of flattened pizza, typical of Catania, my city. Omnipresent on the Christmas Eve dinner table, during my childhood this dish was a Saturday family dinner classic. The dough is crunchy outside and soft inside, with a rich and tasty filling… soo good. A proper scacciata catanese needs the “tuma”. The
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