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ABOUT
"In Etna's Shadow: Culinary Adventures from Eastern Sicily" (Gemelli Press, LLC) will delight foodies and armchair-travelers alike. It's a travel journal with a culinary bent. Evocative, full-color photographs transport you from the slopes of Europe's tallest volcano, Mount Etna, to the fertile la Piana di Catania (Plain of Catania) below. The author, Karen Landes takes you along on culinary adventures detailing everything from gelsi to gelato and carciofi to cassata while also presenting practical information on market days and sagre listings within the Province of Catania.

ISBN-10: 0982102313 / ISBN-13: 978-0982102312

Back Cover Text

A land of contrasts, a land of contradictions, she is Sicily. Her metamorphic landscape reinvents itself with the changing seasons: burnt amber-brown summer fields turn to radiant emerald green in spring. On three sides she is bound by sapphire seas simultaneously friend and foe. Europe’s tallest volcano, Mount Etna (10,910 ft.), remains one of the world’s most active. Brooding over Eastern Sicily, the smoke from her craters foils those who desire to see her in completed splendor, peak and all. Destructive, yet nurturing, Etna’s fertile soils support vineyards, fruit orchards, and citrus groves, in addition to fields of artichokes, wheat, and strawberries. La Piana di Catania (the Plain of Catania) sweeps across the land, inland from Caltagirone, along the lower slopes of Etna to the north and the foothills of the Iblei Mountains to the south, before dropping into the Ionian Sea. The largest lowland plain in Sicily, it is renowned for its citrus, especially the blood orange. It was here, near the medieval town of Mineo, that I lived for two years. I am not Italian, I am not married to an Italian, nor are there any Italian ancestors to speak of. Quite simply, Sicily captivates and delights me. Especially the fruit of her bounty. From gelsi to gelato and carciofi to cassata, culinary adventures abound in Sicily, and these I share with you.