AUTHOR’S JOURNEY IN SICILY

Get out of here! ‒ says Cosimino to the servant girl. Then he speaks to the fishmonger: ‒ Don’t listen to her! She must not buy these things! ‒ The Sgriscia puts her hands on her hips, angry, but Cosimino does not give her time to answer; he gives her a push and starts again: ‒ Get out of here! ‒ he repeats. The fishmonger defends the woman, who starts shouting. Meanwhile people from all over the market arrive to watch what is happening. Cosimino shouts, furiously: – No, no! No prawns! Don Ravanà cannot and must not eat prawns! You ‒ he says to Sgriscia ‒ you tempt him like the devil and ruin his stomach!

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Instead, Comrade Tino, sitting like a president on the steps of the church, spat out sentences: ‒ Listen to me; before the revolution it was quite a different thing. Now the fish are mischievous, I tell you that! ‒ No; anchovies feel the grecale wind twenty-four hours before they arrive, resumed Master ‘Ntoni; ‒ it has always been like that; the anchovy is a fish that has better judgment than tuna. Now beyond the Capo dei Mulini, they sweep them out of the sea all at once, with thick nets”.

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Lagumina lost his confidence, but not his appetite! He ate as if he had been fasting for days! He ate a big plate of risotto without realising it, while going on about the contest. While he was talking, he did not realise that he had cleared his plate and kept looking for more risotto with his fork. When he realised his plate was empty, he looked at the other diners, then looked at the waiter and said: ‒ I thought it was good, if I’m not mistaken. Shall we have an encore? Bring me another. Ah, the mountain air!..

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[…] they are the most beautiful thing you have down there, those bloody cartilages, those simulacra of female organs, smelling of salt and seaweed. What typhus and typhus! They will be as dangerous as all the gifts of the sea that give death along with immortality. In Syracuse I perpetually requested them from Paolo Orsi. How tasty, how divine! The most beautiful memory of my last fifty years!..

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…the commissioner, despite the fact that his fiancée Livia has just arrived from the airport, makes a stop at Calogero’s restaurant to enjoy a succulent dish of fried mullet, then justifying his delay and the unmistakable smell of fried fish oozing from his clothes, with the excuse that he had having had to question the manager of a fry shop

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“The man in fact, sitting in the kitchenette, as he observes with admiration his wife more lively than usual, lit up in the face by the heat of the fire under the saucepan, clutching her waist in a new flowery dress, he thinks: ‒ She’s right, the poor woman! It is so sweet to be alone together, so sweet to be alone together, in privacy, without strangers’ faces around the table, keeping you in suspense, not having satisfied their tastes. He fails to keep his promise and invites a guest. The offended wife invents a stratagem to drive away the unexpected and unwelcome guest, then her husband. Left alone, she comfortably plucks the two tasty cockerels, cooked with such a care.”

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In the scene of the famous Grand Ball where Don Fabrizio sits down at the table to enjoy it:
“While tasting the refined mixture of white food, pistachio and cinnamon contained in the sweets he had chosen, Don Fabrizio talked to Pallavicino and realised that the latter, beyond the sugary phrases perhaps reserved for ladies, was anything but an imbecile.

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Recommended for guests of the entire table € 85.00

The numbers from 1 to 14 identify allergenic foods; should you need them, please do not hesitate to ask for explanatory legends. The chef advises against the consumption of raw fish by pregnant women, children and people with flu symptoms.

Menus and a la carte dishes are seasonal; ingredients can be bought frozen or fresh and processed by us at negative temperatures.
Fish served raw or uncooked, if purchased fresh, is either placed in the blast chiller, as prescribed by law, or purchased already at negative temperatures.

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