#67 Sfincione Palermitano (Sicily)
Sfincione palermitano tells you where it comes from before you even taste it. It’s loud, generous, and proud (just like Palermo). I made it for this project together with the Ministero dell’Agricoltura and the Ministero della Cultura, as we work to support Italian cuisine on its path toward UNESCO recognition. Italian food carries memory in every dish. It’s how families keep traditions alive, from a pan of sfincione in Palermo to the smallest table in the mountains.
If you feel this too, join us in honoring the real Italy. Full story and recipe on Substack soon (link in bio).
#SperiamoCheSiaUNESCO #sfincionepalermitano #italianfoodhistory
Welcome back to Forgotten Italian Classics, where Italian food becomes more than just pasta and pizza. Today I want to tell you why Italy has been nominated for UNESCO food heritage. Italian cuisine isn’t just one recipe. It’s thousands of dishes born in thousands of towns kept alive by families and old habits that refuse to disappear. Spin palerano is the perfect example. A soft simolina dough layered with onions, anchovies, kachukavalo, and finished with toasted breadcrumbs. a neighborhood tradition carried from convents to street vendors. It survived because people protected it, because taste and memory had to stay together. And that’s exactly why Italian cuisine deserve UNESCO recognition. Those dishes are not trends. They are pieces of identity. And if we honor them today, they will still be alive tomorrow. My it.
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My nana used to bring me to the local “Lapa” (three wheel vehicle by Piaggio, armed with a kitchen lol) to get this. Amazing. Cheers from Palermo
uueeelcom bek!
that is pizza tho
That’s an interesting looking pizza
so it's just fake pizza they probably copies from America woww
Italian food: 1001 ways to make dough, tomato and cheese. (Onions too!)
Pizza when you cant affird cheese
Basically a sicilian
Mi piace
How is this not pizza?
So, an onion and anchovie pizza!
You got the bread. You got the cheese. You got the sauce. Pizza 👍
Bro this is a french dish, it's called pissaladière and if it looks italian that not means that it is.
I’m realizing how lucky I am to live near the border because i have experienced that indeed Italia is more than pizza and pasta, to the point I’m able to recognize some of the food and immediately CRAVE some !
@Lionfield do you approve this ?
Where you from man?
looks like pizza to me bud
It's not all pizza and pasta.. Now, let's make some dough
Showed this clip to my kids to see if they might want to eat something like this (wasn’t sure about the anchovies). But, the only thing my youngest picked up on was “6-7 !!”
Anyway, looks delicious, so we’ll soon give this recipe a try!
There's a never ending storm of babedi bubedi coming towards any food discussion after that is done…I really like Italian cuisine and Italians and I like confidence…but you guys can't take any criticism and oooooonly your way is the right way…it's honestly exhausting because you're not open for change and improvments or even new interpretations…for those reasons Italian food should not be given that honor. Annoying fucjers!
that's a nice square pizza
sfincione
felice che tu abbia portato questa ricetta: lo sfincione è davvero troppo sottovalutato. Ma forse questa è una fortuna…
Your videos proved the point that Italian cuisine is just pizza and pasta 😂
Onion pizza
This is the benefits of being a countries filled with historical cities states, everyone come up with their own thing, and war happen when the Latin and Etruscan were debating which type of pizza is better than flat bread with cheese.
Just passing through to mention i busted my hump making this for Easter once, but like always my sister who just baked a loaf of bread got all the praise and attention and nobody cared about the thing I made
If Italy is more than pizzas and pasta then show us something else. That's why Greek food beat you all the time, much more tasty and diverse food!!!
you literally just made pizza…
Don’t get me wrong, I adore Italian food. But the characteristics he described could literally fit any culture’s cuisine lol.
These Italian care more about their food than they do about their religion
Thank goodness There were no Braintot in the comments
Grazie per proteggere i tesori della tradizione italiana dall invasione della globalizzazione
It’s genuinely so funny that every dish he’s made has been some form of pasta and pizza
U sfinciuneeeee cavuru e beddu
That's pizza bud , sorry to break the news to you , but I'm certain that's pizza.
Aaaaaand…pizza.
Oh… a pizza…
Uh isnt this a little white coded? What about all the people of color native to italy?
And this is nnnnot (?) pizza…
I want to do this series for Indian food. There are sooooo many regional foods that people don’t know about. Naan as a concept was so foreign in my house that my grandma thought it was western food.
Am a decent cook but not a chef. If anyone who can cook wants to join me lmk! Also am vegetarian so need someone who can do non veg food.
Sure but that’s a pizza.
Pizza
More than pasta and pizza.
Makes pizza.
(I'm just copying a comment seen on some other video, just shows how endemic the problem is).
Food looks great but the Stav joke about how every country thinks the special thing about them is that they’re hard-working, like food and care about their family is really fitting here. “Only in Italy do people pass down recipes because they care about them” lol