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Palermo-style pesto sauce. Sicilian pastry shops are
Another market worth visiting a delight for the eye and
is the Ballarò, between Piazza tastebuds with their
del Carmine and Piazza Ballarò, cannoli, cassata and
which is busiest around noon. In almond paste cookies.
Catania, by Piazza Duomo, there Some cake shops offer
is a colourful fish market (called their own specialities.
a piscaria) every morning, and These include the
produce markets at Piazza Carlo marzipan sweets with A stall selling Sicilian cheese in a Catanian market
Alberto and Porta Uzeda. On citron filling at the Antica Regional Specialities
Sundays the Porto di Catania Pasticceria del Convento in
area fills with an antiques Erice; ricotta puff pastries at Delicatessens and agriturismo
market, offering everything from Scivoli in Caltagirone; vanilla- or are ideal places for regional
vintage household items to rare cinnamon-flavoured chocolate specialities. Smoked swordfish
pieces of Sicilian workmanship. at the Antica Dolceria Bona iuto and tuna in oil can be found at
While out towards the airport, at in Modica; ricotta and pistachio the Casa del Pesce in Syracuse;
the flea market held at the old cannoli at Savia in Catania; salted mullet roe at Quartana
fruit market of San Giuseppe La chestnuts filled with citrus fruit in Erice. Azienda Agricola
Rena on Viale Amerigo Vespucci, jam and topped with dark Trinità has tangerines, olive
craft stalls and second-hand chocolate at the Caffè Sicilia oil, honey and wine. In Ortigia,
dealers lay out their wares. in Noto; and nougat at Geraci, Caseificio Borderi offers
in Caltanissetta. cheeses made by dairyman
Sicily is a paradise for ice- Andrea Borderi and his family
Pastry Shops and cream buffs. A good place to in accordance with old Sicilian
Ice-Cream Parlours visit is Stancampiano, where traditions. Fiasconaro produces
Popular pastry shops include the house speciality is frozen a green-golden ice cream made
Alba and Bar Massaro in yoghurt with black-berries or with Bronte pistachios and at
Palermo, Antica Dolceria Nutella with whipped cream. Christmas they serve a variety
dell’Etna in Zafferana Etnea and In Taormina Niny Bar is the of deliciously flavoured
Colicchia in Trapani, where you place to go, and in Catania it is panettioni made with manna
can enjoy coffee or an aperitif. Comis in front of Teatro Bellini. from ash tree.
DIRECTORY
Ceramics Puppets Caffè Sicilia Stancampiano
Corso Vittorio Emanuele Via Notarbartolo
Artigianato del Sole Opera dei Pupi Vaccaro 125, Noto (Syracuse).
Via Santa Margherita 72, Via Giudecca 5, Syracuse. 51–56, Palermo.
Misterbianco (Catania). Tel 0931-465 540. Colicchia Tel 091-681 7244.
Tel 095-398 472. Vincenzo Argento Via delle Arti 6, Trapani. Regional
Ceramiche Artistiche Corso Vittorio Emanuele Tel 0923-547 612. Specialities
Sabella 445, Palermo. Geraci
Corso Vittorio Emanuele Tel 091-611 36 80. Via Canonico Pulci 10, Azienda Agricola
3, Sciacca (Agrigento). Pastry Shops Caltanissetta. Trinità
Tel 0925-847 49. Tel 0934-581 570. Via Trinità 34, Mascalucia.
∑ ceramicheartistiche.it Alba Savia Tel 095-727 21 56.
Laboratorio Piazza Don Giovanni Via Etnea 302, Catania. ∑ aziendatrinita.it
Branciforti Bosco 7d, Palermo. Tel 095-322 335. Casa del Pesce
Scala S. Maria del Monte Antica Dolceria Scivoli
5, Caltagirone (Catania). Bonaiuto Via Milazzo 123, Via Emmanuele de
Tel 0933-244 27. Corso Umberto I 159, Caltagirone (Catania). Benedictis, Syracusa.
∑ www.impronta Modica. Tel 0932-941 225. Tel 0933-231 08. Tel 0931-691 20.
barre.it Antica Dolceria Caseificio Borderi
Wrought Iron dell’Etna Ice-Cream Via De Benedictis 6, Ortigia.
Parlours
Via Garibaldi 309, Zafferana Tel 329-985 25 00.
A Lumera Etnea. Tel 095-708 43 11. Comis Fiasconaro
Corso Re Ruggero 180, Antica Pasticceria Piazza Vincenzo Piazza Margherita10,
Cefalù. Tel 0921-921 801. del Convento Bellini 8/9, Catania.
∑ alumeracefalu.it Via Guarnotta Gian Filippo Tel 095-715 24 99. Castel- buono.
Tel 0921-677 231.
Laboratorio Patanè 1, Erice. Tel 0923-869 777. Niny Bar
Via Regina Margherita 111, Bar Massaro Via Vittorio Emanuele Quartana
Giardini-Naxos (Messina). Via Ernesto Basile 26, 216, Letojanni-Taormina Via Manzoni 112, Erice.
Tel 0942-511 49. Palermo. Tel 091-489 922. (Messina). Tel 0942-361 04. Tel 0923-539 200.

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