The month’s of Novembre starts with the feast of “all Saints”, but the most important feast is the day after, the 2th of November, The celebration of the deads, that we call “la festa dei morti”.
In the past, during this day, in the morning the people of Palermo, went to the Cemetery and they taked with them “a muffuletta” a bread with oil of olives, anchovies, salt and pepper, to eat fast in the oper air.
During the day the people of Palermo eat many kind of sweet things, tetù, reginelle biscuit with sesame,
the fruit of Martorana (Marzipan),
and the “pupa a ciera”, puppet of sugar.
The families prepared a basket full of these sweet things and many toys, and the child believed that was a present of the deads.
In November is important too the “Festa di San Martino”.
In Palermo we use to eat the “biscotti di San Martino”, hard biscuitz with aniseed to soak in the wine “Moscato”., or the same biscuits with cheese and chocolate, or with jam and icing, sugared almond, in a perfect Barocco Siciliano style!
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