The Mediterranean Basin..The cradle of the modern era, nurturing a multi cultural cross section of diverse, eclectic and influential civilizations that have shaped the way we live our lives to this very day. The basin commands the mighty Europe to the North, eclectic Asia to the East and the indomitable Africas in the South. It’s easy to see why it received its Latin name ‘Mediterraneus’, me
aning "in the middle of earth". At the heart of this fertile and quintessential basin lies its largest and most valued jewel of an island, Sicily known by its proud and privileged natives as SICILIA. Due to its novel location, this fulcrum of Mediterranean trade, art and architecture, has been influenced in every facet and field of its existence, by a plethora of foreign cultures and sub-cultures, to create an identity that is completely anomalous and incomparable. Cuisine has always been the centre fold of the Sicilian culture, which inculcated what is now believed to be an Italian tradition of the good life or ‘La Dolce Vita’. Sicilians were the pioneers in emphasising the importance of enjoying life’s feasts on a daily basis. No wonder then that the island of Sicily produces more wine than New Zealand, Austria and Hungary combined. So what do you get when you mix one of the world’s most fertile basins with an unparalleled repository of ingredients, with multiple sub-cultures coming together across 3 continents and 24 countries, each bringing with them their unique and varied culinary beliefs and sensibilities? You get a culinary centre-piece so masterful at the height of its discipline, that it befits its bestowed tag of..
