Maria Bertucci Compagno placed the seed-and-wine cookies on a platter in her kitchen in Mandeville, explaining how artifacts of her Sicilian heritage like this are never far away. “If I don’t have ...

MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) - Maria Bertucci Compagno placed the seed-and-wine cookies on a platter in her kitchen in Mandeville, explaining how artifacts of her Sicilian heritage like this are never far ...

Camille Cusumano is a writer and editor in San Francisco SIRACUSA, Italy — It’s one thing to visit a Greek temple. It’s another to wonder whether one of your ancestors had a hand in raising that ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Dust swirls in a quiet kasbah, stirred by the sirocco — the desert wind that carries soft Saharan sand across the Mediterranean Sea, ...

On a warm night of May in Calatabiano, a small village and former Arab fortress in eastern Sicily, the sound of an oud, a typical Middle Eastern instrument, meets the rock vibes of an electric guitar.

Two decades later, he began to pursue the language, reaching out online to those who could teach him and asking to practice with native speakers. He got in touch with them in New York, Philadelphia ...