Sfincione soft focaccia with tomato, onion, anchovies and caciocavallo
Tall, soft bread dough, tomato, onion, anchovies, oregano and caciocavallo: sfincione is Palermo's focaccia, cut into squares.
Read more →The town was remade by Albanians: stradioti soldiers who arrived in the fifteenth century, found an abandoned hamlet and in 1501 signed the articles to repopulate it. The language, in time, was lost; the Byzantine rite was not, and in church they still celebrate as they did then.
So for centuries two peoples have lived side by side in Mezzojuso, the «Latins» and the «Greeks»; and for the books and the priests it gave to Arbëreshë culture they called it the Athens of the Albanian colonies. The name, on the other hand, is Arabic or Sicilian: manzil Yūsuf, Joseph's hamlet, or «mezzo giuso», because half the town lies below the square. There are 3,020 residents.
🍝 The flavours of Mezzojuso
Arancina fried rice ball stuffed with meat ragù
Saffron rice, ragù with peas and caciocavallo cheese inside a golden crust. Round and feminine in Palermo, pointed and called arancino in Catania: the quarrel is serious.
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