Palermo, Sicily

 

“I love Sicily. It’s beautiful. It’s old. It’s Italy, but it’s not. I like the people — proudly mixed up, preyed upon by generations of invaders and a nearly ubiquitous fraternal organization that makes even the simplest transaction — like getting fruit to market — complicated. Sicilian food is exactly everything I love: the cuttlefish-stained pasta, street meat, inky wines, oily fishes. And for some reason, though I don’t speak Italian, I understand nearly every word in Sicily.”

Anthony Bourdain