A special, bread-like focaccia , around which a sad legend unfolds, and which is celebrated every year in Luzzi with a big festival. The finished grupariata , fresh out of the oven. Mmmm! Many of you probably know focaccia  from Tuscany or schiacciata siciliana  from Sicily. Less well-known, however, is grupariata  from Calabria — more precisely from Luzzi, a village at the foot of the Sila mountains. Luzzi, nestled between the green slopes of the Sila and the wide Crati Vall

Mary with her mother Concetta, around 1947, shortly before leaving for Argentina. “Li ciuri su beddi” – Mary greets me in Sicilian dialect! It’s a sunny autumn day in Buenos Aires, and Mary is in her garden waiting for my call from Germany. I want to interview her about her family’s history, who emigrated from Sicily to Argentina. “The flowers are beautiful,” she explains in Spanish, and you can tell the ties with Sicily remain strong. We have known each other for ten years,

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