He will also be among the co-hosts at Sanremo 2024 Teresa Mannino who, at the 74th Sanremo Festival 2024, starting on February 6th, will join the host and artistic director Amadeus on the evening of Thursday 8th. Sicilian comic author and actress, born in 1970, Mannino “with a unique and original gaze observes and tells what happens in the small world of private relationships and in the large world of the public scenario”, we read in his bio.

Differences at the table between North and South

“I’m very ready, because I’ve been preparing for a lifetime,” she declared some time ago on Tg1. «But not in Sanremo, but to say what I think, which is what I will also do on that stage. And on the Ariston stage Mannino will not disappoint. Her gags tell of herself, a Sicilian transplanted to the north, to Milan, but also of the relationship between man and woman, parents and children, partly focusing on the differences between north and south, which mostly revolve around the relationship with food and the relationship with time. «Food for us southerners is linked to the emotional sphere, in Milan you give flowers here, we give trays of sweets. The weekend doesn’t exist for us, because we have Sunday lunch with relatives, of which there are two in the end, one to eat and the other to digest. Ours is not your brunch, we have pasta with sardines, stuffed aubergines and fried cazzilli.” And fried cazzilli are among the goodness of traditional Sicilian cuisine, delicious potato croquettes typical of Palermo street food. In fact, in Palermo they can be found in all the fried food shops, but they are served with panelle, the fried variant of chickpea farinata. Here is the recipe and five tips to avoid mistakes.