A visit to Catania's central fish market will give you a chance to see the ancient city and buy directly from local merchants, anything you like. We will cook together if you like and I will show you the simplicity is authenticity of Sicilian dishes. It will be appreciated by me to point you to the best fish, meat , fruits and vegetables and homemade preserves!

Visit to the fishmarket libertybaroque style Catania

Catania's picturesque Pescheria market is reminiscent of Arab souqs and is famous for the "vociata" or call of vendors trying to sell their fish. Among the stalls, in addition to fresh fish, one can taste boiled octopus, fried fish, oysters, as well as pistachio and nougat. There is also an area where they sell meat, sheep, lamb and horse. Finally, the vegetable and cheese department with the streets covered with hundreds of colorful umbrellas. The visit ends at market from here we will need to move to my house for lunch. At home we will knead fresh pasta and cook it with ingredients bought at the market. We will eat together with our guests a first course of fresh pasta, second course and typical Sicilian dessert.

Market tour of Catania, cook and lunch

Historical market tour : a sensorial experience ! Eyesight, sense of smell and taste.Explore and discover the historical fish market " la Pescheria" in Catania is a sensorial unique experience.We will be captivated by the smell of fresh fish that inebriates and tastes of sea, by the voice of fishermen who boats their wares and by the thousand colors of the stalls of fish, fruit and cheese...We will discover the local products and at the end of the visit cook together a typical Catania menu, preparing hand made pasta and using seasonal ingredients. My recipes have been handed down from generation to generation and tell of traditions, everyday life and welcoming sicilian hospitality!

A sensorial experience !Eyesight, sense of smell and taste 

Rice in Sicily was used when the Arabs conquered our land, giving us a unique architecture, along with artistic, literary and culinary traditions. So it was that rice was used more and more in cooking, from appetizers to desserts, through millennia-old recipes, sometimes revisited by island tastes and ingredients! Experience will show you how to use this versatile raw material, with its many formats and types, in recipes that will amaze you with flavor and high digestibility. 5- or 7-course menus. From rice croquettes, to small arancini, from rice with porcini mushrooms to baked rice timbales, and as main courses The famous sartu' of meat or fish or the classic ossobuco with saffron rice. To finish with the famous crispelle and zeppole di riso.