Photos - Cooking & Adventure on the Islands of Sicily

Photos - Cooking & Adventure on the Islands of Sicily

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Guests having fun waiting for our private boats to take us around Favignana, Sicily on our cooking vacations. Guests love the fresh bruschetta we make in Favignana, Sicily on our cooking and wine adventure vacations During our boating excursions in Favignana, we relax, get in the water and cool off with some refreshing fun! Two great friends, Scippio and Rosario love to have a great time and love our guests that come visit us in Favignana Our tour leaders, class instructors are our family in Favignana that will soon be your family once you meet them! Not all Italian cooking happens indoors. In Sicily, a lot of great cooking happens outside on the grill. Great photo of our guest appearing to do a lot of heavy lifting. We do harvest salt - but not all of that! Sicilian Almond cookies are delicious. We make them from scratch on our Favignana, Sicily vacation weeks. So Good! When available and in season, some guests are lucky enough to enjoy sea urchin caught fresh off the coast in Favignana. Glynn enjoying some fresh cannoli in Favignana, Sicily on our cooking and adventure on the islands of Sicily vacation We make pizza from scratch at a private country home in Favignana. It's also where we make fresh ricotta and honey& We pay homage to our dear friend Pino who was a diamond in the rough. So many great memories and stories. We miss you&am There's a technic and an art to everything. Mostly just have fun! Getting the fiore di sale from the flats in Actually, they really did the leg-work and harvested the fiore di sale that you see in the photo. We take the salt home. We explore the pre-historic cave drawings in Levanso, Sicily. These hieroglyphics date back over 10,000 years! While out on our early morning fishing excursion, we see the most spectacular sunrises in Favignana, Sicily. Erice offers some of the most stunning views on the western side of Mainland Sicily. Busiate pasta, a spring-like pasta is a Sicilian version of the more commonly known fusilli pasta. Two of our favorite people sharing a little aperitivi down by the cliffs near the hotel. A truly immersive experience. One of our favorite things on any of our vacations is when we harvest the fiore di sale in Trapani, Sicily We make Pasticcini di Mandarle- Sicilian Almond Cookies at one of our cooking classes in Favignana, Sicily Along with other delicious fruits, we enjoy our relaxing boat rides around the Isola di Favignana, Sicily Dinner is served as we are treated like royalty on a private boat in the Favignana Harbor. A delicious Sicilian meal Our guests get to harvest salt right from the seawater flats in Trapani, Sicily. Truly a unique experience. Such great friends in Favignana that we make pizza and fresh ricotta cheese with in their private country home. On all our Italian cooking vacations we make fresh pasta in one form or another. Pastas are typically regional recipes. Our guests have an amazing experience learning to cook authentic Sicilian and other Italian recipes. Micheal and Gibarosso in this great photo from Gibarosso's country home in Favignana, Sicily. He was an original. Our guests have the vacation of a lifetime getting to the beach or out for a hike in Favignana, Sicily. It's beauti The founders of Culture Discovery Vacations, Michael and Paola enjoying some time on the boat with guests in Favignana. Taking it easy and relaxing on the boat on the Amalfi Coast. Francesco shows our guests the fun art of making fresh sausages right out of the grinder. The shop is in Valderice. Our guests often take the trail up to the Castle of Santa Caterina when they have some time off. Before we get our boots to harvest the salt, we tour the museum and learn the history of the amazing "saline" Cara loves fresh-from-scratch almond cookies so much that we had to trade some wine for her to share them with us! Our guests after getting their freshly-harvested salt from the saline at the Trapani, Sicily salt flats. Gina made fast friends with this little guy - but then we fried him up and ate him with our amazing lunch on the boat&#x While out on our island cruise in Favignana, Sicily, we drop anchor and enjoy the cool seas to take a nice plunge! Our guests get to help make the ricotta and pecorino cheese by stirring the pot of fresh milk that will become cheese&#x One of our first photos featuring the floating-on-air fishing boat on the sea in Favignana, Sicily. Incredible. Guests show off their haul of salt after a morning harvest in Trapani, Sicily. The Blue Grotto of Capri has nothing on the amazing grottoes of Marettimo, Sicily. Truly amazing and spectacular.