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Around the island in 41 dishes
08.28
The Soul of a City
The sites, bites, and characters that make Palermo one of the most under-appreciated cities in the world
08.24
Silent on the Strait
An uneasy calm on the Strait of Sicily, one of the world's deadliest border crossings. A Time.com/Roads & Kingdoms report.
08.20
Meeting (the other) Joe Paterno
A ludicrous search for answers about Penn State, in the Sicilian city of Paternò
08.13
Red Sauce Diaries: Pomodoro Paradise
Redder than a fire truck, sweeter than a mother's love, the Pachino tomato holds the secret to Sicilian cuisine
08.09
The Beautiful Game of Ballarò
In the poor neighborhood where Mario Balotelli was born, immigrant kids play out their own dreams of football fame on an asphalt schoolyard pitch.
Roads & Kingdoms' last evening in Sicily, featuring fretting Germans, nocturnal bambini, feuding Sicilians and what seems to be a Hobbit selling hashish
Few cultures know how to gild the lily quite like the Sicilians. Three island-wide examples of delicious excess
08.04
Corleone Country: Fire in the Belly
Corleone, still trading on the fictions of the Godfather series, was nonetheless home to a very real, very murderous mafia. Plus: just two hotels, one of them quite shitty. R&K's Sicily trip continues.
08.03
The Best Travel Video Ever Made
Big beach belly, Matt stuffed with brioche that is stuffed with ice cream, and Corleone country on fire, all set to bombastic bangra beats
08.02
When You’re Here, You’re Famiglia
Two Americans, a dozen Sicilians and a four-hour al fresco dinner in the coastal village of Ribera
08.01
Syracuse and Beyond: The Road Unwinds
From beach to mountain, notes on road-tripping through Sicily
07.31
Red Sauce Diaries
Roads & Kingdoms goes to Sicily in search of the early roots of American food and culture. Now you can participate.
07.31
Catania: All Dressed Up, Nowhere to Go
A crumbling, colonnaded mashup of Havana, Rome and Tunis, Catania offers a glimpse of real—sometimes too real—Sicilian city life
07.30
Fishmonger Bazaar
Anchovies, eels, urchins, swordfish and early-morning smokers slinging their wares in Piazza Carlo Alberto
Cheesy, savory and red as a firetruck, one of Sicily's most iconic pastas bears a striking resemblance to a staple back home
07.29
Sicily: the first four days with R&K
Rooftops, swordfish, emigration, horsemeat, tourists, purple kryptonite and one spectacular island: R&K's first four days in Sicily
07.29
The Beauty of Ruin: Filicudi
Day Two in Sicily. Dispatches from a gorgeous island with a troubled history, in the Aeolian Islands.
07.28
Scenes From a Sicilian Beach Town
A day in jetty-jumping, family-fighting, German-jostling, pasta-pounding Cefalú