Il Buonappetito: Street Food Fest, the street food festival in Palermo
Il Buonappetito: Street Food Fest, the street food festival in Palermo

Video: Il Buonappetito: Street Food Fest, the street food festival in Palermo

Video: Il Buonappetito: Street Food Fest, the street food festival in Palermo
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I love Palermo. I love Palermo. Stravedo for Palermo. Maybe I'm Piedmontese and used to phlegm, orthogonal roads, the Alps. And therefore, as a reaction, I crave exuberance, alleys, the Mediterranean.

And then in Palermo you eat great. Not so much in terms of gourmet - of course, there is the Bye Bye Blues in Mondello, the Pupi in Bagheria and something else -, as in the championship of popular cuisine, especially street cuisine.

Street food and rotisserie in Palermo are serious business. Very serious. The “pieces”, that is the incredible baked goods - pizzas, stuffed pies… - are exquisite; and what to say about the arancine; some panelle; some bread with the spleen; of the quarume; of the stigghiola; eat and drink (I love that it has this name of bacon wrapped around a spring onion) …

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So the Street Food Fest, which starts today in the city until December 17, is not one of the many Food Truck haunts of which, frankly, we can hardly take it anymore. A street food festival in Palermo is like a film festival in Los Angeles, a samba festival in Rio, a beer festival in Munich.

There will be thirty-two Sicilian and non-Sicilian street food houses, and you will have fun. The juicy version of the Nordic Christmas markets. But my heartfelt advice is: after enjoying the houses and the various entertainments of the Festival, throw yourself into the city, into the food that is on the road 365 days a year, not just these ten.

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Go to Piazza Beati Paoli to eat the quartz, in Corso Vittorio da Rocky to get bread with the spleen, in Via Maqueda da Mario and Luigi to eat the sfincione, to the Vucciria da Tanino to make yourself a stigghiola. And then, in the evening, go to the Sanlorenzo Mercato, the demonstration that tradition with all its incredible wonders can be brought into the contemporary world.

In short: these days go to Palermo, heck, they are the right ones. Although, personally, I believe that every day is the right one to go to Palermo.

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