Sicilian Cookbooks

[Remy]

Hi everyone, I'm just considering a few cookbooks to add to my collection - which do people recommend for Sicilian cuisine? I've been interested in these titles in particular:

 

Cettina Vicenzino - The Sicily Cookbook: Authentic Recipes from a Mediterranean Island

Wanda Tornebene - La Cucina Siciliana di Gangivecchio: Recipes from Gangivecchio's Sicilian Kitchen
Giorgio Locatelli - Made in Sicily

Mary Taylor Simeti - Sicilian Food: Recipes from Italy's Abundant Isle

 

Plus this text in Italian:

 

Giuseppe Coria - Profumi di Sicilia: Il libro della cucina siciliana

 

I'm very interested in any experience you have with these, or any opinions you have to share, especially if it's to compare any of these titles with each other. Also happy to be recommended other titles, in either English or Italian. Thanks!

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I recommend Giuliano Bugialli's Foods of Sicily & Sardinia and the Smaller Islands.

 

[weinoo]

26 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

I recommend Giuliano Bugialli's Foods of Sicily & Sardinia and the Smaller Islands.

 

His books are always good!

 

Here's my "collection" of books, wth a good focus on Sicilian cooking:

 

 

Obviously, you already have a different, award-winning book by Wanda Tornebene...this one (Sicilian Home Cooking) is good as well.

 

And you have a different book by Simeti, so we like the same authors, and Mary's book is a pleasure to read.

 

Katie's books are always good, and contain well-tested recipes.

 

The Carlo Middione book is one of the older Italian cookbooks on my shelves, and even though it encompasses the food of Southern Italy, he was a Sicilian immigrant, and many of the recipes are what I would call Sicily-based.  It was a cookbook I couldn't put down for a long time, as can be seen by how tattered the cover is.

 

I might have a few more with a Sicilian focus, I just couldn't locate them at the present time!

 

Na bella jurnata!

[BonVivant]

2 more...

 

Not sure if they are available online, I bought mine in Sicily. Good reading material.

Edited February 28 by BonVivant (log)

[Remy]

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions so far. 

 

14 hours ago, weinoo said:

And you have a different book by Simeti, so we like the same authors, and Mary's book is a pleasure to read.

 

Actually I believe they're basically the same book republished under a different name. Maybe someone else can confirm.

[weinoo]

11 hours ago, Remy said:

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions so far. 

 

 

Actually I believe they're basically the same book republished under a different name. Maybe someone else can confirm.

Indeed…looks like one is the British edition, published about 10 years after the original.