The Raffadali Pistachio,
it would seem that the oldest pistachios are in Raffadali (AG) more than 600 years old
Here we have translated it into one of the oldest cultures of the Sicilian gastronomic tradition.
Semifreddo and ice cream
The first form of ice cream (from the Arabic shar’bet),
the Sicilian sorbet was very simple, mountain snow (on Etna there are perennial glaciers!) and the juice of citrus fruits from the Catania plain.
The people of Catania developed the first technique of cold preservation, at the end of winter huge snowballs were placed in underground caves, and alternated with disks of hay prevented them from becoming blocks of ice.
With this technique, the Sicilians sold ice during the summer throughout Italy.
