La Cucina Eoliana e Siciliana: The Food of the Eolian Islands and Sicily

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LA CUCINA EOLIANA E SICILIANA
the food of the eolian islands and sicily

First Name: :   Theresa
Location: :   Vermont
Comment: :   Beautiful pictures, nicely organized site. Haven't been through it all yet.

Name: :   Annette Ballatore Kaupp
Location: :   Houston, Texas
Web Site: :   kmd1@pdq.net
Comments: :   Beautifully done. I was in Italy in June but was unable to get to Sicily which is where my family orginated from. With your share of photos and descriptions I can't wait to get back there. I am publisher of a National Magazine called "Wholly Guacamole".

Name:: Connie Furio
Location:: Staten Island NY
Email:: connie5400@earthlink.net
Comments:: La Cucina Eoliana is the most beautiful web site that I"ve ever seen. The recipes, pictures of the islands and family photos are wonderful, a great personal touch. Lets you get to know the chef on a personal level. I give it 10 stars!

Name: :   Arleen
Location: :   Glenolden, PA
Comment: :   Interesting, enlightening, exciting!

Name: :   Nick
Location: :   Santa Fe, New Mexico
Comment: :   When's dinner?

Name:: Romauld Andrew
Location:: Melbourne Australia
Email:: romauldandrew@bigpond.com
Comments:: Great website, keep it going

Name:: ernesto
Location:: london
Email:: diasto.diasti@freeserve.co.uk
Comments:: Congratulations,it is a lovely web site

Name: :   Fafa Demasio
Location: :   New York City
Email: :   fdemasio@yahoo.com
Comments: :   Thanks for introducing me to the Eolian Islands. I enjoyed reading and
looking at everything on your site. (Especially the family photos.) Now I have one more
place to add to my list of "Places to Visit." Ciao, Fafa Demasio

Name: :   Anthony J Theobald
Location: :   Utica,MI
Email: :   anthonytheobald@alttavista.com
Comments: :   Good job !!!!

Name: :   Kathleen Citrolo Gwinnett
Location: :   North Carolina, USA
Email: :   hannah01@netpath.net
Web Site: :   http://www.geocities.com/gwinnettcf
Comments: :   Hi, I linked to your site from T. Maggio's web site. Yours is one of the best and most comprehensive Sicily sites I have found. I am a watercolor artist with all my family roots in Sicily. There are so many places in Sicily...

Name: :   francis j ficarra
Location: :   410 south benson rd fairfield ct
Email: :   ffic394767@aol.com
Comments: :   my family fled messina in 1800 and went to lipari, they then began coming to the us in 1899, I have been searching for recipies from lipari and have only found one in the 15 cookbooks i have a great almond, pistachio, mint pesto which i have made.

Name: :   Dorothy Taishoff
Location: :   New York City
Email: :   dtaishoff@yahoo.com
Comments: :   This is a wonderful site. I will be back to savor it often. Thank you.

Name: :   Anna Lauricella
Location: :   NYC
Email: :   aanalauricella@aol.com
Web Site: :   www.geocities.com
Comments: :   I was born in Panarea. Came to the states with my family when I was very young. My mom died when I was 18 years old. She taught me the basics of cooking but I have forgotten much and never had any written recipes. Thank you for sharing...

Name: :   rita campbell
Location: :   london, england
Email: :   ukcampbellclan@aol.com
Comments: :   My Uncle has done such a great job, and I appreciate seeing the family photos, it makes me relive my childhood.

Name: :   Marco
Location: :   Romano
Email: :   zouktime@aol.com
Web Site: :   djzouke.internetdj.com
Comments: :   What a great website!! The Aeolian Islands are jewels in the sea. We first made a day trip to Lipari and then returned there for a week. Aeolian cooking is some of the best that we had while in Sicily.

Name: :   Chef Domonique
Location: :   New Orleans
Email: :   strega1229@aol.com
Comments: :   I was absolutely thrilled to find this web site. It is beautiful and filled with wonderful recipes. I intend to use many of them in my professional capacity. A Jewel!

Name: :   domenico spataro
Location: :   canada
Email: :   palimi@hotmail.com

Name: :   Anita Carney
Location: :   Australia
Email: :   carney@zip.com.au
Comments: :   It is great! Wonderful work, and I could relate to it all... Thanks.

Name: :   Jimmy Rodewald
Location: :   New York
Email: :   james_rodewald@gourmet.com
Web Site: :   gourmet.com
Comments: : You rock! Loved seeing all this. I think of you every morning as a pull a short double (espresso). I don't miss tending bar, but I sure miss your food. Jimmy

Name: :   Aurora Valentino-Glover
Location: :   Long Island, NY
Email: :   aurora2110@aol.com
Comments: :   Thank you! I am a passionate Italophile. I always thought that I was raised on the wrong side of the Atlantic. I can never get enough of this most-enlightened and engaging culture. Your site presented more to love about "La Bella Italia".

Name: :   Constantine Alexander
Location: :   Noank, Connecticut, USA
Email: :   Constantine@OliveTree.cc
Web Site: :   http://www.OliveTree.cc
Comments: :   I just discovered your wonderful site. Congratulations! You have created a site that reflects your passions with a lot of gusto. You have won another dedicated visitor. Constantino

Name: :   A. LA PADURA
Location: :   NEW YORK CITY
Email: :   ALPdesigns@aol.com
Comments: :   I wish my grandmother was here to see this. We both thank you.

Name: :   frank romano
Location: :   florida.USA
Email: :   sesom1147@aol.com
Comments: :   Sicilian heritage both husband and wife.Would like to receive email to your web site.

Name: :   ANNA MARIE OLIVIERI
Email: :   PLEASEGOAWAY@WORLDNET.ATT.NET
Web Site: :   WWW.PIONEERTRAVEL.COM

Name: :   matthew a. mannino
Location: :   greenville, sc
Email: :   mtthw776@cs.com
Comments: :   I would like to know if it is possible to obtain the recipe for a desert that I found in Palermo many yrs ago and fell in love with. I elieve they are called inese fried dough filled with ricotta. It would be greatly appreciated. Matthew A. Mannino

Name: :   judi
Location: :   mass.
Email: :   slendor@webtv.net
Comments: :   being half italian im always looking for good italian recipes like my grandmother made your site is wonderful

Name: :   Mark Romano
Location: :   Delmar, NY USA
Email: :   zouktime@aol.com
Comments: : you have recommedned some great works of literature on you site. i am now reading bonaviri's "dolcissimo" in the much the same way as i would eat a diplimatico, savoring the incredibly delicate arcane images. it is the right time to read it.

Name: :   Donna Keller
Location: :   St. Cloud, MN, USA
Email: :   dmk@cloudnet.com
Comments: :   Impressive! Thank you for what you do and do SO well!

Name: :   Rose Cullen
Location: :   Los Angeles area
Email: :   Craftingal@yahoo.com
Comments: :   I am so excited to see your site. You have recipes in there that my Mom used to make and I have no record of the amounts that go into making them. My Mom and Dad were both from Messina. I was there in 1963 and had the chance to visit Lipari and Stromboli.

Name: :   S Barresi
Location: :   Oliveri, Sicily
Email: :   abarresi@infinito.it
Comments: :   It was fun to see so many places mentioned that are nearby the town in which I live. I will be back to visit this site soon.

Name: :   Leslie Green
Location: :   Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Email: :   Leslie_green@yahoo.com
Web Site: :   http://www.pinholes.freeyellow.com
Comments: :   What a wonderful site! I found your site while searching for an interesting potato salad recipe, of all things. I'm thrilled with all the recipes and hope to make all them eventually.

Name: :   Jennifer
Location: :   Utah
Email: :   orem10@yahoo.com
Comments: :   What a beautiful site! Love the tour of this beautiful area, the background, and of course, the recipes. Excellent!

Name: :   Michele Thistle
Location: :   Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Email: :   MicheleThistle@aol.com
Web Site: :   http://www.foyteam.com
Comments: :   Very beautifyl site. The pictures are just gorgeous.

Name: :   Lisa Hutt
Location: :   USA
Email: :   lisaandtony@email.msn.com
Comments: :   I got your site from The Chef at World Wide Recipes and it's already saved in my favorites. I Love Italian Food and your site is very well done, I'll be visiting it often and voting on it! Lisa

Name: :   Ms. Jimmie Ellis
Location: :   Crescent City, Calif. USA
Email: :   msjce1@juno.com
Comments: :   Grazie a mille! What a warmly lovely place, bringing so many good memories to us all! I lived in Villaggio Gabbiano Azzurro near Catania & LOVED it! Thank you so much for your beauteous site! Will definitely buy the book when available. Jimmie

Name: :   M. Conroy
Location: :   England
Email: :   conroy@globalnet.co.uk
Comments: :   Visited your site for the first time at the suggestion of the Chief at World Wide Recipes. It is a beautiful and informative site. I will enjoy cooking and tasting the wonderful recipes.

Name: :   JerseyTomato
Location: :   New Jersey, USA
Email: :   dh0405@aol.com
Comments: :   visited your site out of curiosity because you were the first one to congratulate World Wide Recipes as #1 site in votes. Your site with its history and food of Sicily is wonderful. It's great to read the history of my ancestors...

Name: :   Carol DiClemente Clark
Location: :   Canada
Comments: :   Great job, will certainly visit more often now that you were recommended.

Name: :   Laurie Milliard
Location: :   Seattle, Washington USA
Email: :   lmilliard@helsell.com
Comments: :   This is a very good site. I like all the information, the graphics, the recipes and the family history. Very impressive. Thanks for all your work!

Name: :   Salvatore Baio
Location: :   Turnersville,NJ USA
Email: :   poppopcooks@cs.com
Comments: :   thank you for the best site on the web

Name: :   Marcia Dillard
Location: :   Georgia, USA
Email: :   Mdill29700@aol.com
Comments: :   Your site is beautiful! Full of color and wonderful sounding recipes!Thank you for sharing some lovely pictures with us!

Name: :   julie booth
Location: :   australia
Email: :   julesb88@hotmail.com
Comments: :   Excellent site, I love Italy and Italian food so I'll be back... I got this link from chef at www.recipes and I'm glad I used it. Cheers .

Name: :   universa pavone
Location: :   australia
Email: :   uni_5961@hotmail.com

Name: :   Diane
Location: :   Buffalo, New York USA
Email: :   Sweetbyte@aol.com
Comments: :   Hi!! Thank you for sharing such a beautiful site with us. I found you through Chef2Chef and www.worldwiderecipes.com.
I have bookmarked your site to view again and again. Wishing you nothing but the very best!!

Name: :   marlena spieler
Location: :   london england
Email: :   marlena_spieler@hotmail.com
Comments: :   mi piace molto la bella sicilia. tante grazie for sharing this little slice of the island with readers. marlena spieler, radio broadcaster, and author of The Roving Feast column in San Francisco Chronicle, as well as many books

Name: :   lena cowdrey
Location: :   canada
Email: :   lenadinardo@sympatico.ca
Comments: :   I would like to recieve your email if you do send out any information on italy. I enjoyed your recipes and your sites of italy I hope to go back soon I MISS ITALY. I have not been back in 20 yrs. ciao lena

Name: :   Antonia Aquilano
Location: :   Cambridge, Ontario Canada
Email: :   AntoniaAcqu@aol.com
Comments: :   Le vostre ricette mi sono piacute molto. Grazie tanto Antonia

Name: :   Vitangelo Caragiulo
Location: :   United states
Email: :   HVMCar@aol.com
Comments: :   beautiful site

Name: :   Tina Zappanti
Location: :   California
Email: :   tesoro_00@hotmail
Comments: :   Thank you for sharing all you have on Sicilia. My father's family also comes from Sicilia and I am always wanting to know more about my heritage that is very quickly lost to me as the family gets older and those who know pass on.

Name: :   Maria Guastella
Location: :   PA
Email: :   italnurs@aol.com
Comments: :   Bravo! I enjoyed your site.

Name: :   francesco
Location: :   Villafranca Tirrena, near Gesso
Email: :   eolie@strettoindispensabile.it
Web Site: :   www.strettoindispensabile.it
Comments: :   Hi, congratulation for your nice web site. Visit my magazine Home page http:///www.strettoindispensabile.it eolian edition and write to me about you. bye, Francesco Venuto

Name: :   Rozita Davani
Location: :   Maryland
Email: :   ROZITA24@EXCITE.com
Comments: :   I loved your page lots of information and the pictures of your family where beautiful.

Name:: Patricia Crivello-Zwiers
Location:: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Email:: mmaaxx@worldnet.att.net
Comments:: Both my mother & father were born in the USA of Sicilian parents who immigrated to the USA.

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Name:: Sylvia
Location:: Chicago
Email:: nitaj6@Aolll.com
Comments:: I stumbled across your site, at about the time I was leaving work. I stayed nearly 30 minutes over because of your wonderful receipes and history. Thank you so much. Sylvia

Name:: Bobbie Haber
Location:: Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Email:: BGHaber@aol.com
Comments:: I just returned from Italy. We missed Sicily - but I plan to get there soon. What a fabulous country!!

Name:: Marco Romano
Location:: Delmar, NY
Email:: zouktime@aol.com
Comments:: I have tried a few of the insalate recipes and they're great!

Name:: Chuck Tabbi
Location:: Buffalo N.Y.
Email:: Tabbiano1234@aol.com
Comments:: I know I have relatives in sicily. respond to me!

Name:: chris smith
Location:: london, england
Email:: chris@finaltouch.co.uk
Comments:: I loved the site. My wife & I are about to visit the islands next week. I look forward to some great food and will revisit your site on our return to attempt to recreate some culinary memories! Thanks a lot. Chris Smith

21 Name:: David Anway
Location:: USA
Email:: anwayd@hotmail.com
Web Site:: www.powerdave.com
Comments:: great web site and links. Lived in siciliana for 1 year in 1986. Will move back after we retire from work.

Name:: KiKi
Location:: Ny Chica
Email:: BlaBLa BLa@yahoo.com
Comments:: OMG, this site rox. I got a whole bunch of good info for m,y italian project n alot of pircs. Thanx so much 4 maken dis easy 4 me!!!

Name:: Michael Knoell
Location:: San Diego CA
Email:: mdknoell@hotmail.com
Comments:: I lived in Italy for 7 years while in the US Navy - 4 in Sicily. Your site has made me homesick for the food, scenery and especially the people of Sicilia... grazie tanto!

Name:: universa pavone
Location:: australia
Email:: uni_5961@hotmail.com

Name:: Faye Tiboni
Location:: Canada
Email:: fayet77@hotmail.com
Comments:: Recipes sound great - am anxious to try

Name:: Michael Senia
Location:: Binghamton, New York
Email:: michael@hancock.net
Web Site:: www.dimmockhill.com

Name:: Bob La Rosa
Location:: Alamogordo , New Mexico
Email:: la448@zianet.com
Comments:: A great site! My Grand parents & Father were born in Sicily. I remember as a child growing up in Brooklyn New York. My Grandmother making a wonderful spinach pie which had raisins in it. it tasted both sweet & slightly tart.

Name:: Michelle
Location:: Dealware
Email:: lilkid1445
Comments:: this site is good and helped me alot

Name:: mom54
Location:: So.Carolina
Email:: pmac@islc.net

Name:: Anthony M Giordano
Location:: New Jersey, USA
Email:: mrgee@mindspring.com
Comments:: I am visiting Sicily in March, 2002

Name:: tammy macGlaflin
Location:: Nh, USA
Email:: tammerjean@juno.com

Name:: Michael J Brucklier Jr
Location:: Buffalo New York
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Name:: FELIX PORTELLI
Location:: SANANTONIO,TEXAS
Email:: FPORTELLI@IOPENER.NET
Comments:: THIS IS LOOKING GOOD

Name:: mary kennedy nee chinni/zagmae
Location:: brielle, n.j. 08730
Email:: cnme@usamailbox.com
Comments:: looks grrrreat! will get back to you after reviewing this page. since my mother was from Filicudi, I find this fascinating. Thank you.

Name:: Mike
Location:: Racine, WI
Email:: recipe_site_review@ameritech.net
Web Site:: http://balder.prohosting.com/cooklink
Comments:: I really enjoyed your site. The love of the food and the country both come through loud and clear. The pictures really add to the feeling that one is right there actually tasting the recipes.

Name:: Angela
Location:: New Jersey
Email:: sunvolt9@yahoo.com
Comments:: Very nice site. I appreciate all the hard work that went into it. Beautiful pictures, explanations, etc. Makes me want to travel there.

Name:: H. B. Capella
Location:: Huntington Beach, CA,USA
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Location:: UNITED STATES
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Name:: Dianne Young
Location:: Texs- USA
Email:: diane-young@webtv.net
Comments:: Excellent website. I really enjoyed it. Thanks.

Name:: MARY ANN PICO
Location:: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.
Email:: MARYANNPICO@MSN.COM

Name:: Maryann Russo
Location:: IDAHO !!!!
Email:: MRusso45@aol.com
Comments:: Iloved your recipes and web site. Its a wonderful reminder of my family.

Name:: Pamela Aranyos
Location:: New Zealand
Email:: fountain@wave.co.nz
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Comments:: Very nice web site. I will be back to look at more recipes.

Name:: LEA
Location:: GERMANY
Comments:: ENJOYED YOUR SITE VERY MUCH. LOVE THE RECIPES.

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Location:: Palm Springs, California
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Name:: christina lumia
Location:: Pasadena calif. usa
Email:: sicilian21@hotmail.com
Comments:: I love this site. send me anything

Name:: Charles J. Celsi
Location:: West Des Moines, Iowa
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Name:: Laurie
Location:: joliet,il-usa
Email:: explorejoei@aol.com
Comments:: great

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Location:: SANTA FE
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Location:: Hickory NC
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Location:: staten island
Email:: discal@louish.com
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Comments:: great site, enjoyed visiting

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Name:: Klara Kühne
Location:: hamburg
Email:: webmaster@siebter-tag.de
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Name:: Stacy
Location:: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Email:: stacycrump@mindspring.com
Comments:: A very nice site, informative and enjoyable to read.

Name:: Anna-Chantal Benjamin
Location:: UK
Email:: chantal.benjamin@bbc.co.uk
Web Site:: www.bbc.co.uk
Comments:: I love your site. My nonna is Sicilian. Her maiden name was Anna Sappia but she married a Maltese man called Inglott so my mother's maiden name was Inglott.My grandmother was born in 1917 in Syracuse. She now lives in the UK and is 85 years old.

Name:: Katie
Location:: Darwin, Australia
Email:: katiemcgrath@bigpond.com
Comments:: I am very envious of you house last year age 15. I spent 4 weeks in a house on Alicudi, and have been suffering withdrawals ever since. Thanks for the brief flashback to the beautiful islands. Arriverderci!

Name:: David Zwiefelhofer
Location:: Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Web Site:: http://www.fsbonm.com
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Name:: Werner
Location:: Germany
Email:: werner@thomahawk.de
Web Site:: http://www.thomahawk.de
Comments:: I just want to say hello. Your sites are very nice and informal. I enjoy surfing around your pages. Many greetings to all.

Name:: Ben
Location:: Germany
Email:: ben@songtexte-2005.de
Web Site:: http://www.songtexte-2005.de
Comments:: Hello you! Great site. I found exactly the information I was looking for. I will recommendyou page to all my friends. I heard of your site and just wanted to see what´s up here. Really nice place. See you again sometime. I wish you great success,

Name:: Maria Smith
Location:: Kaneohe Hawaii
Email:: pukadoc@msn.com
Comments:: Great website! We are planning a trip to Sicily in the spring and your site is a wealth of information!!

Name:: Foto Fotografie Miss Europa Selezione in Calabria
Location:: Rosarno
Comments:: Foto Fotografie Miss Europa Selezione in Calabria Management: . Prof. Tanino Rao; . Giuseppe Costantino (detto Pino) COMMITTE OFFICIAL NATIONAL MISS EUROPE ITALY Patron: Prof. Tanino Rao; Collaboratori stretti: . Pino Costantino - Rosa

Name:: Robert Fama
Location:: San Francisco, USA
Comments:: Che va piano va sano

Name:: Anthony W Gennaro
Location:: florida
Email:: agennaro6@comcast.net
Comments:: great web site I really enjoyed it. I am trying to fined a town in Sicily call Santa Ninfa.

Name:: Robbie Robinson
Location:: England UK
Email:: foodandwine@yahoo.com
Comments:: Enjoyed the website and especially the different recipes for Caponata. Have you got a good dessert recipe for fresh figs that is simple and delicious.

Name:: Peter Eldon Previte
Location:: Texas
Email:: eldpre@charter.net
Comments:: My father was Angelo G. Previte from just outside of Messina in Sicily. He & his brother immigrated to the US in 1914. Angelo was the son of Peter & Josephine Previte. I wonder if the Prevites in your pictures are related to my family?

Name:: Alexis Pisciotta
Location:: Pelham, NY USA
Email:: apisciotta@hotmail.com
Comments:: I use the site as a reference tool when cooking and enjoy learning more about my heritage. Thanks!

Name:: SAM
Location:: Layton,Utah..USA
Email:: llipari@xmission.com
Comments:: Love you site.My family came from Mazzara del Valla in 1905. Oh how I wish we could come there. But for health reasons it is not possible..We can only dream...

Name:: Bettylou
Location:: U.S.A. OHIO
Email:: mbevans@alltel.net
Comments:: Really enjoyed your web site. Wish I could visit Sicily. That is where my great grandparents come from. Love cooking and eating. Thankyou for sharing with us. God Bless .