Santa Rosalia è la santa patrona della città di Palermo, nel 1624 la peste colpì Palermo e, dopo la sua apparizione, fu portata in processione e la città fu salvata dalla peste.

Da quel giorno si festeggia il Festino [u fistinu], con grande devozione da parte dell’intera città, a cavallo tra il 14 ed il 15 luglio si svolge il Festino.

I festeggiamenti cominciano già qualche giorno prima, con celebrazioni religiose, festeggiamenti che coinvolgono l’intera città, ma è il 14 sera che per tutte le vie principali di Palermo viene portato in trionfo una rappresentazione della santa sul carro, che ogni anno viene decorato con tema diverso.
I festeggiamenti cominciano con la processione che parte da Porta Nuova e Palazzo Reale e continuano fino a notte fonda, passando per le vie principali di Palermo, fino ad arrivare alla Cala dove, sul golfo di Palermo, vi è lo spettacolo di fuochi d’artificio.

Il Festino, festa religiosa molto sentita dai palermitani e come tutte le feste religiose siciliane

Crediamo nel cambiamento sociale e partecipiamo attivamente alle opportunità che la nostra città di Palermo ci offre. Diamo il nostro contributo, ogni giorno, tenendo sempre alti i valori che ci contraddistinguono: la tradizione del buon cibo ed il senso di comunità e di appartenenza.
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Definita dal Leonardo Sciascia come l’ovale perfetto, la mandorla d’Avola è parte della storia siciliana da secoli ma è grazie alla sua qualità e alla qualità della sua lavorazione e commercializzazione che la sua fama ha attraversato gli oceani.

Ma quali sono le caratteristiche della mandorla d’Avola rispetto agli altri tipi di mandorla?

Ahh l’estate!

La stagione più calda, quelle delle vacanze, delle serate sotto le stelle e amici. Le giornate si fanno più lunghe e la voglia di rendere quelle serate magiche ci ha portati qui a consigliarvi dei vini nuovi e leggeri. Percorriamo insieme, con l’aiuto dei vini selezionati alcune tappe della nostra amata Sicilia, con i nuovi vini che abbiamo scoperto.

Discover April's favourite products. 

Modica PGI chocolate is a traditional product that originated in Sicily, which was dominated by the Spanish in the 16th century.
It is produced according to specifications and it is the conching that gives it its unique flavour and aroma. 
We have selected the created a vegan chocolate line, with raw materials from organic farming and with products from the fair trade market. Nine different flavours, all incredibly good. 

Eccellenze high-quality cooked ham, with a balanced taste between sweet and salty; there is no added sugar, just a drop of honey. 

The PGI durum wheat semolina pasta, handmade in the town of Gragnano. Bronze drawn and slowly dried to put a high quality product on your table.

“Palermo isn’t perfect. Cities aren’t perfect. They are like families: some of them work  more than others. Some siblings are talented at doing something while others at doing  something else. Some do well, and others don’t. And yet, this is the reason why there’s  ample room for improvement. 

Certain places are fragile, scarred by long-lasting abandonment, just like people. And the  longer the neglect, the more complex and prolonged the cure. Nonetheless, there is a  cure, and we can do a lot."

We were waiting for spring and it's almost summer, that's how we live: so early that we are late. The vicious circle of time, of our lives, of our work.

This cuspid issue, straddling two seasons, has absorbed moods and loves and come out as a collage where art invades the neighbourhoods and makes bread, as natural as biodynamic, as fragrant as food that is all-round good, as inebriating as a prize-winning Negroni.

We wanted to talk about rebirth and we ran into a thousand rivulets: this 2022 that wants to makeup for all the time spent closed, opening up.

By the way, we are looking for people in London who know our job and want to be reborn in London. But why do I get asked more often "man or woman" and not "what kind of staff"? I was reading recently: it is said that there are fewer women at the head of the companies because of their "lackof assertiveness" (breath).

But is assertiveness a competence? I looked up various studies on Linkedin - Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Istat, Journal

The World's Best Selling Classic Cocktails is the international ranking of the best-selling cocktails in the world. Drinks International – an authoritative magazine devoted to the entire variegated universe of alcoholic drinks from spirits to beers, including wines,  worldwide – annually publishes it. 

It must be said that, for more than forty years, DI has also published a ranking of wines, champagne, spirits, bartenders and bars, besides cocktails. In short, it has cranked out interesting rankings because they tell a lot about the market and the way the world of (good) drinking has been evolving as well. 

We are proud to have already placed in 2019 as many as five Italian among the most  important bartenders in the world (Ago Perrone, London; Simone Caporale, London; Diego Ferrari, Milan; Mario Farulla, Rome; Leonardo Leuci, Rome). It seems we have also breached the ranking of cocktails since two of our beloved ones rank in the top ten. 

For seven years, the ‘old fashioned’ –

1924, Poland, Koberwitz Castle – Rudolph Steiner, PhD, who had turned sixty a few years before, held the course "Scientific-spiritual impulses for the progress of agriculture". It was a cycle of eight lectures on soil, fertility, and cosmic and spiritual forces. Far from being technically an agriculture course, it was the well-structured description of a vision, a fascinating – and modern – approach to agriculture. A holistic, global vision in which every element contributed to fertility. So, you could not merely hoe the soil – just simplifying – without considering the air, surrounding grounds, water, breeding, and seasons as well. A philosopher, theosophist, Grand Master Deputy of the Masonic Order, tireless lecturer and anthroposophist (the founder of anthroposophy), Steiner abhorred the scientific method in the strict sense of the word. According to him, this method was affected by materialism and greed and disregarded the spiritual dimension.

1927, Germany, Demeter was born – today

Spring changes us, makes us dream, projects us, with lightness and optimism, towards a dimension of life that is more fun and youthful, where thoughts become less heavy and  the desire to live is more powerful than ever.
The red wines that accompany our toasts,  our dinners and our moments of negligible (?) happiness are not the same as those of winter.

The wines we have designed for spring evenings, and for the first lunches by the sea, are reds that are as young as the evenings of May, as fresh as the sea breeze, as charming as spring.