ottagono - the blog

The web is full of recipes and legends, and the one that follows is probably neither the last nor the best. But it is certainly true that it is our recipe: the one that, from 1983 to today, 365 days a year (at breakfast, lunch and dinner), so many Sicilians (and not only...) have enjoyed on the slopes of Etna in the charming town of Mascalucia.

That our Sicily, an island of endless contradictions, is a land that is at once amara e duci (bitter and sweet) is certainly no news; that coffee is better taken with sugar because life is bitter enough already is another...