Barbara Pirrella-Sico doesn’t believe in keeping family recipes a secret. The Pittston Twp. woman never hesitates to share the ingredients and steps behind her family’s Sicilian specialties. Her ...

Every Christmas, golden-crusted loaves sprinkled with sesame seeds came out of Petrina Graziano’s oven for her large Sicilian family in Milwaukee. Graziano baked the bread by memory, by feel, by heart ...

While “Eat It” does offer enough tantalizingly beautiful bread recipes to inspire the seasoned home baker and maybe even incentivize more reluctant ones like me, the beauty of the book is that you don ...

Like a stone being booted across the water from Calabria to Tunisia, Sicily sits almost in the center of the Mediterranean Sea. As a result, Sicily has had more than its share of contact with its ...

Barbara Pirrella-Sico doesn’t believe in keeping family recipes a secret. Place the yeast in the warm water. Keep aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour and salt. Make a well in the middle ...