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Appetito

Bona Furtuna

<p class="Standard">Jennifer Sontag is the founder and managing partner of<a href="https://www.viamonde.eu/"><span style="color: windowtext;text-decoration: none"> ViaMonde</span></a>, a boutique relocation agency that helps Americans relocate to Italy and Spain.</p>


Jennifer Sontag

A group of visitors posing among ancient stone columns.

Travel

The Place My Grandmother Never Got to See

<p>Joel Beighton is a British writer living in Kraków. He writes <a title="https://passeggiare.com" href="https://passeggiare.com/">Passeggiare</a>, a publication about food, travel and the places that shape how we live.</p>


Joel Beighton

Scaccia served overlooking Modica Sicily.

Features

The Long Way to Scaccia: Finding Sicily’s Folded Bread

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<div class="py-[3px] whitespace-pre-wrap u-break-words">Mario Traina is a Sicilian chef, gastronome, and educator based in Catania. A graduate and ambassador of the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo (founded by Slow Food&#8217;s Carlo Petrini), he is the founder of the Comunità Educativa Gastronomica Etnea, Sicily&#8217;s first educational gastronomic community. He works as a private chef across the island, cooking for travelers with a zero-waste philosophy rooted in local ingredients and Sicilian tradition.</div>
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<div class="py-[3px] whitespace-pre-wrap u-break-words">Website: <a title="https://chefmariotraina.com" href="https://chefmariotraina.com/">chefmariotraina.com</a> | Instagram: @chefmariotraina</div>
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Chef Mario Traina in the kitchen with an apron on.

Chef Mario Traina

Recipes

How to Make Nonna Pina’s Stuffed Artichokes

<p>Hello. My name is Joanna Moeller, and I am a passionate home cook residing in downtown Manhattan for 20+ years. I started my Instagram cooking page <a href="https://www.instagram.com/spaghettiroots_nyc/"><u>@spaghettiroots_nyc </u></a>in April, 2023, as a way to showcase my cooking, as I initially intended for it to be more of an inspirational cooking page featuring my &#8220;No recipe, recipes.&#8221; It has truly been a wonderfully creative outlet for me.</p>


Joanna Moeller

Timballo di anelletti plated with tomato sauce and basil garnish

Timballo di Anelletti at Alessandro’s Italian Brings Sicily to the Plate

<p>By training, Chiara Montalto Giannini is an actress and a writer, but she has been cooking since before she can remember. As an actress and a writer, her solo play, <i>A Brooklyn Love Story &#8211; </i>based on the decade she spent living in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn with her grandfather &#8211; was produced Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York and at Theatre 68 in Los Angeles, where it was directed by Ronnie Marmo. Currently, she is the Director of the Writers Guild Initiative, a non-profit affiliated with the WGAE that shares the tools of writing and creative expression with different communities. She&#8217;s also a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and the Dramatists Guild. At Appetito, Chiara will share recipes from her childhood and those she has learned through her extensive pursuit of Italian food both here and abroad.</p>


Chiara Montalto Giannini

Caponata with Artichokes by Chiara Montalto Giannini.

Sicilian food

The Place My Grandmother Never Got to See

The Long Way to Scaccia: Finding Sicily’s Folded Bread

How to Make Nonna Pina’s Stuffed Artichokes

Timballo di Anelletti at Alessandro’s Italian Brings Sicily to the Plate

Caponata with Artichokes is a Twist on the Classic Sicilian Dish