News Published 22 May 2025

Abbot Meli’s recipes: sweet couscous

Abbot Meli’s recipes: sweet couscous

The third video story about one of the oldest typical monastery sweets in Sicily, Sweet Couscous, is online

Salvo Piparo as the poet Meli decants in verse the goodness of the specialties of Palermo’s monasteries. In the monasteries of Palermo in the 18th and 19th centuries, sweet couscous, called dry cossack. A melt-in-your-mouth goodness that Sciascia called “angelic agapé.”

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