Friday, November 7, 2008

Wet Dreams In Boot Camp

Festa di San Martino in Palermo: "It feels lu vinu"


"San Martino is every mustu vinu.
It 'hard to believe but the drunks have a protector, which does not recommend to get through, but barrels full of precious nectar, the wine!
San Martino is defined in fact, the patron saint of drunkards who flock to the various''''taverns of the city by eating cooked vegetables as '''' Cardoni (card), ''''vruocculi ( broccoli) and boiled eggs.
Obviously then, that in a country like ours, where as you know, one of the main source of the economy is represented by the wine industry around the celebration of the feast of San Martino
linked the celebrations that vary from province in the province.
During the San Martino infatti, il mosto ha finito di fermentare e quindi può essere assaggiato per la prima volta, accompagnato da qualcuno dei piatti tradizionali dell'autunno.
La festa oggi è ancora molto sentita a Palermo tanto che per l'occasione le industrie vinicole della provincia aprono le porte delle loro cantine per far degustare il vino novello.
Anche in città nei bar e nelle enoteche, si organizzano festose serate o Happy Hour, che significa letteralmente "ora felice". Ed infatti di ore felici se ne trascorrono parecchie!
Anticamente in quel giorno, i più poveri si limitavano ad accompagnare il pasto con del vino novello e solo la first Sunday after the November 11 ended with a modest lunch
" the Viscott the San Martino abbagnatu nn'o muscatu" , (St. Martin's biscuits soaked in Muscat).
I wealthy instead, they take advantage to preparing the table of every gift of God , where you can not miss the turkey or in the absence of pork, to drink the wine again. Palermo why we have two versions of the feast that is, the rich and the poor.
belongs to the tradition of Palermo in the preparation of special biscuits that takes its name "biscuits San Martino ", packed with fine flour mixed with milk and yeast strongly. The cookies are shaped like a round loaf and the addition of anise seeds in the dough gives them a taste and special aroma. Again is used today in Palermo consume "Abbagnato" (soaked) in fortified "Moscato di Pantelleria" , and pastry chefs in the city enhance the traditional biscuits coated with a veiled with melted sugar and decorating them with chocolates, candies, flowers marzipan, filled with cream or jam. The cookie can also be drained, soaked in liqueur, rum and filled with ricotta cream with candies and chips chocolate.
The Palermo is usual to speak of "Indian summer" in early November when the weather back and explain this phenomenon typical Mediterranean weather with a legend, linked to an act of charity done by the saint.
I came back, the bakery Ingrassia, to give you a few photos, which can make the idea of \u200b\u200bresistance that we women
Palermo on a diet, we need to go buy bread,
believe is a real torture!
be for this reason, the task of buying bread in the evening, is demanadato husbands ?????







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