![]() Mary and her husband Tonino inherited it in 1966 and is now a diversified farm of less than forty acres of vineyards, olive groves, fruit and vegetables with organic certification for their Bosco Falconeria wine, olive oil and produce. ![]() The farm has been in the Simeti family since 1933. This time Mary takes us to her farm at Bosco, located some 40 miles west of Palermo in the hills overlooking the Gulf of Castellammare. Her new book is called SICILIAN SUMMER: An Adventure in Cooking with My Grandsons. She has also written other books published in Italian as well as travel and food articles for various American, Italian and British publications including the New York Times and the London Financial Times. Or you may have read her other books about Sicily: On Persephone’s lsland: A Sicilian Journal, Travels with a Medieval Queen or Bitter Almonds: Recollections and Recipes from a Sicilian Girlhood. This was published in several editions and the same text was later republished as Sicilian Food: Recipes from Italy’s Abundant Isle. ![]() You may have a copy of her classic, in-depth, definitive book of the culinary history, traditions and recipes of Sicily called Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty Five Centuries of Sicilian Food. Many of you would be familiar with the writings of Mary Taylor Simeti, one of the greatest authorities on Sicilian food. ![]()
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