Sweet Sicily

“And I do not beseech you on behalf

of my homeland.  I am a foreigner:

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My origins were there - yet Sicily

is dearer to me than all other countries.

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sweet Sicily is now my country - and,

kind Ceres, may your mercy save this island.”

Ovid, Metamorphoses (translation

by Allen Mandelbaum in Ovid in Sicily)

                        

Tarocchi oranges are the sweetest of the Sicilian blood oranges. They grow in the plains of Catania and on the slopes of Mount Etna.