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...As I scraped the second cup clean, I remembered another of Margaret Raneri’s stories, about how the gelato-sorbet hybrid originated 4,000 years ago when Mesopotamians harvested snow from Mount Etna....
...For Sicily’s best gelato try Cicciuzzo at San Nicola L’Arena in Palermo. Cicciuzzo’s mulberry, fig or morello cherry gelati are to die for....
...After three days of San Martino bliss, spent pootling down the hill from Casa Nuvola to the beach at Cefalù, stopping off on the via Roma to buy creamy gelato wedged into buttery brioches at top pasticceria...
...(gelato backwards)....
.... ——————————————- Palermo A quarter of Sicilians live in the province of Palermo, along the northwest coast. The capital city is also called Palermo....
...Perhaps the best is La Pasticceria on via Garibaldi, where queues gather at 11pm each night to eat fine gelato served in warm, fresh-baked, brioches....
...Although there is plenty of good gelato available in Palermo, I chose to go to Cerda, a small town about 70km east of the city, where Antonio Cappadonia has acquired a reputation of being the best gelatiere...
...– Palermo, I was appalled....
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