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the arancine #DaTaste immediately (waiting for Santa Lucia) – Italian Cuisine

Increase of the delivery and take-away service also for street food items: in view of the feast of Saint Lucia, here are the arancine – strictly feminine. To order and try in the Sicilian capital

A small gesture is enough to support, in this difficult moment, restaurants, pizzerias, bars and gastronomic shops in your city: home delivery and take-away are two lifesaving anchors for a sector severely affected by forced closures and restrictions imposed by ministerial decrees. Words, but above all habits, have now entered the daily life of all of us. In Sicily, for example, several appeals have been launched on social networks, in particular Facebook, for the food delivery in support of companies; and during the lockdown the project was born as well #iocomprosiciliano, which today has turned into the largest marketplace for quality products on the island.

Street food

Delivery and take away are proving to be important tools to concretely help the world of catering and the closely connected one of agri-food. And if pizza is confirmed at the top of the list of the most ordered and desired foods by Italians, in Palermo nobody seems to want to give up the goodness, and the consoling power, of street food. Timeless street food icons such as sfincioni, panelle, crocchè and arancine they never go out of style. Greedy cuddles, which adults and children like, for dinners on these evenings spent within the walls of the house or for lunch in the office for those who are not smart working. In view of December 13, the day in which Santa Lucia is celebrated, but also the arancine in Palermo, we recommend three unmissable places where you can taste them immediately.

Vabres Bar

A historic restaurant, run by the Vabres family for 50 years. The arancine are excellent, considered by the real people of Palermo to be among the best in the city, available in five different flavors. There are the classic “accarne” with veal ragout, peas and tomato sauce, and “abburro” with ham and mozzarella. And then also bacon and provolone, sausage, spinach, all of daily production and offered at the unbeatable price of € 1.50 each. Fried calzones and take-away coffee are also very popular. The young Alessio Vabres was the first to offer specialty coffees in Palermo. The restaurant is open every day from 6:30 to 20:30 for take-away, while the delivery service is entrusted to Glovo. Following the latest restrictions, the Vabres family redesigned the spaces by creating two separate sorting areas, one where you order and the other where you pay, in order to comply with the rules on spacing and at the same time speed up the purchase. The display counters, with the sweet and savory pieces, have been moved to the entrance of the bar so that customers do not have to go inside, a space that is reserved only for employees.

Bar Vabres, via Michele Cipolla 83, Palermo.

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One of the "greenest" restaurants in Palermo, particularly popular with vegetarians and vegans, but not only. Verdechiaro was born from the desire of chef Nello Occhipinti to raise awareness among his customers on the importance of healthy and sustainable cuisine, preferring organic and local products. This year Nello, together with his wife Daniela Assennato and daughter Alice, inaugurated the new location of the restaurant in the elegant Libertà residential area. Among the proposals on the menu, in addition to first courses, second courses and pizzas, there is also an entire menu designed for vegans. From Verdechiaro on Friday is instead the day dedicated to arancine. Prepared with husked brown rice and selected condiments of the highest quality, they are available in various flavors that change weekly, among the most succulent we point out: soy ragù, cinisara ragù (native Sicilian bovine breed), spinach, lemon zest and tofu cream , five cheeses and cooked ham from the Il Chiaramontano artisan cured meat factory and pumpkin, celeriac and chicory. All the arancine (price € 2.50 each) can be ordered for take-away, by calling the telephone number 091/2525291, or through the SocialFood.it home delivery service (the most used and loved food delivery by Palermo) .

Verdechiaro, via Giuseppe Alessi 40/42, Palermo.

KePalle

Since its opening, this original format, conceived by the entrepreneur Danilo Li Muli, has immediately received the approval of many Palermitans and tourists. KePalle is the first street food restaurant dedicated to the queen of Sicilian rotisserie and today it is present in the city with three points of sale. The arancine are fried on the spot and are always hot and crunchy. Great care is taken both in the preparation, continuous control of the temperature and clarity of the oil, and in the choice of ingredients, only Carnaroli rice and products mainly from Sicilian suppliers. As for the tastes, you are spoiled for choice: from the classic ones with butter and meat to the gourmet ones such as swordfish, mint and aubergine, up to vegan and vegetarian or "local" alla norma or sfincione. For those who do not want to fry, there are baked arancine, while for pasta lovers, the arancina with Sicilian anelletti is a must. Finally, for the sweet tooth, the sweet arancina. The latest novelty of KePalle is the Apericasa, or a gourmet box, at the introductory price of € 6.50, with mixed arancinette, pasta arancinette, fried calzoncino, sandwich with panelle, sandwich with spleen, fried cheese, inside. crouton and french fries. Takeaway or delivery on www.socialfood.it/palermo/ke-palle

KePalle – Arancine d’utore, via Terrasanta 111B – via Maqueda 270 – via E. Amari 154, Palermo.

special box Festino Santa Rosalia – Italian Cuisine

An original box set made by the historic Palermo candy factory Terranova to celebrate Santuzza, in the year without a procession and processions due to the Covid emergency

The popular festival most loved by the people of Palermo boasts a history spanning four centuries. Over time, only the landing of Garibaldi and the bombs of the Second World War interrupted the Feast of Santa Rosalia, an extraordinary mix between the sacred and the profane in which citizens manifest all their devotion to the Santuzza. This year the new security rules for the containment of Covid-19 will not allow the organization of mass secular and religious moments, which usually take place between 10 and 15 July, the date of the discovery of the bones of the Saint in Monte Pellegrino in 1624, in full plague, And so the 2020 edition of the Festino will take on a more spiritual and virtual dimension, with the key events broadcast online.

We bring the Festino to your home

A serious blow for Palermo, and for the people of Palermo, who will have to give up the procession and the colorful and fragrant stalls on July 14 at the Foro Italico, where the triumphal chariot passes Porta Felice and the fireworks over the sea celebrate the patron saint of the city. For lovers of the Festino, the historic factory Newfoundland – deeply linked to Santuzza – decided to create a box with all the typical delicacies of that day in mid-July. Giacomo Terranova, fifth generation of a family of master candy makers, has decided to call it "Festino" to pay homage to Rosalia and bring tradition to the homes of all devotees: «My family in the past" armed "the cart at the Marina. It was produced at the time and the freshly made sweets were delivered to the customers. The idea We bring the Festino to your home retraces the memory of my ancestors. We are proud of our history and that we can offer it to everyone, not only to the people of Palermo, but also to those who love Sicily and its delicacies .

The special box

Inside the box there are the scented notes of the caramel of the typical donuts, the colors of the country ice cream, the delicious nougats and the famous homemade candies carob, anise, pomegranate, prickly pear, sesame and honey flavors produced in the historic Newfoundland factory, for 130 years always in via Albergheria, in the popular district of Ballaro.

Great attention also to the packaging of the box, embellished with an illustration of Santa Rosalia by the Palermo watercolorist Giorgio D’Amato. The link with traditions is in fact a constant in the activity of the Newfoundlands. The whole production process, from the selection of raw materials to the packaging of the products, proudly carries the Sicilian brand. In recent years the company, famous for its iconic carob candies, has decided to focus on honey, jams and other typical confectionery products, always in the wake of promoting the Sicilian identity and the agro-food excellence of which the Island is rich. .

To order your own box at home, and enjoy some magic of the Festino from home, just connect to the dedicated section of the Terranova online shop (shipments throughout Italy).

The special box Festino Santa Rosalia. — The special box Festino Santa Rosalia (photo Salvatore Spatafora).

the cannoli of the Cloister of Santa Caterina – Italian Cuisine

An absolute symbol of Sicilianity, cannoli and traditional convent sweets can be tasted directly at home, thanks to the new delivery service of the I Segreti del Chiostro di Palermo patisserie

A treasure chest of unparalleled beauty in the heart of the historic center of Palermo. Inside the sixteenth-century complex of Saint Catherine, within the walls steeped in prayer and silence that for centuries have welcomed generations of cloistered nuns belonging to the most powerful aristocratic families of Sicily, an all-female cooperative has restored the ancient kitchens of the monastery and recovered the original recipes of the conventual sweets Sicilians.

Cannolo Cloisters

After closing to the public following the lockdown, the pastry shop The Cloister Secrets (which is also the title of the volume of Maria Oliveri in which the recipes handed down by the nuns are cataloged) started during the quarantine, in line with government provisions, a home delivery service of their delicacies, in the belief that even the consolation of a kind of comfort could give relief in those days so difficult. To date it is still not possible to visit the monastic complex, but the pastry shop has been able to reopen to the public for the sale of sweets, in compliance with the rules of distancing with which we will now have to live.

Once you cross the entrance threshold of Piazza Bellini, your senses are immediately enraptured by the riot of perfumes that emanate from the Converse kitchen: cassate, virgin minne, cannoli, Genoese, dark brown, fedor of the chancellor is papal biscuits these are just some of the specialties that can be ordered by phone and received comfortably at home. To characterize the production is the great care in the selection of raw materials used for the preparation of desserts, as it happened in the past when it was the mother superior who dealt with relationships with suppliers. Although the demand far exceeds the offer, the laboratory does not intend to give in to commercial enticements and production remains limited to guarantee a high quality standard.

The most requested for delivery? Obviously the Sicilian cannolo, among the symbols par excellence of Sicily in the world. Born as a Carnival cake, according to historical sources it owes its name to the canes that were used to put the wafer into shape while it was fried. According to a legend, however, everything originated from a carnival joke designed by the nuns against a religious: they brought out sweet ricotta, instead of water, from a tap that in Sicilian is precisely called cannolo.

The I Segreti del Chiostro patisserie is open every day from 10 to 13 and from 15 to 18 (Piazza Bellini, Palermo). For the delivery call 327 5882302.

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