From the garden, with the sun still on it
Nothing forgotten. Everything preserved.
In the southernmost corner of Sicily,
August arrives like a verdict.
August arrives like a verdict.
San Marzano tomatoes vine ripened and bathe in the August Sicilian sun. Calabrian Chilis mature on the vine. And what the garden gives in those few weeks — gets kept the only way worth keeping: slowly, in olive oil, in a jar.
Nonna's Pasta al Pomodoro Piccante
One pan. No shortcuts. Just like that, every time.
orto.
When the garden peaks, you don't let it go.
Sundried slowly in the August sun. The tomato caught sweet. The pepper caught hot.
All of summer in two jars.
All of summer in two jars.
