Our Next -Zine is Underway! Join us for the journey...
Can you guess where we are headed in our next issue?? 😉
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Buongiorno a tutti!
Before we discuss our next -zine, we wanted to take a moment to send you all a huge, huge GRAZIE as we just passed 5000 subscribers! 🌟 So fun!! In the early days of writing our little blog, we would have never dreamed this milestone possible - we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the support and love you have shown us over the years. We are so very excited to continue to bring you all that we love about Italy…grazie grazie di cuore ❤️
Ok - onto our next -zine! As you hopefully know, we have published a few -zines on topics that are so very near and dear to our little Italian hearts….our first issue was ‘Vigneto’ - a tribute to my beloved Montalcino; and our second issue was ‘Il Mare’ - our tribute to our love of those long languishing days by the beautiful Italian sea - you can find either issue HERE in case you missed them 😉. (And a quick digression - in other related news - we are now being carried by one of our favorite bookstores in LA - Now Serving. And we happened to notice our little zines on their shelf in one of their recent posts - exciting! 💃🏻 #grateful!!!!)
Where are we off to for issue 3?
So this one might not be so hard to guess - issue 3 will be a tribute to the beautiful land where our maternal grandparents were born - our beloved Sicily!
“To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all,
for Sicily is the clue to everything.
The purity of the contours, the softness of everything, the exchange of soft colors, the harmonious unity of the sky with the sea and the sea to the land… who saw them once, shall possess them for a lifetime.”
- Goethe
For this issue, we are doing things a bit differently - we want to take our paid subscribers along for the journey - a sneak peek into the issue before we hit print. Join us over the next few months as we:
recreate the recipes we loved from our visit last fall;
share the stories and photos from our years of visiting the island; and
meet the amazing artisans who are the heart of this magical island.
Each month, for the next four months, we will be exploring in more depth a specific area of the island, from the moody Mt. Etna to the bustling markets of Palermo. Oooh, we are excited! And join me as I head back to Sicily in March to further explore the markets of Palermo and the western coast of the island.
For the next few weeks, as a way to say grazie for all your support, we are running our first special - a Sicily special if you will…20% discount off our annual subscription! Let’s explore Sicily together….💃🏻
And for those who would prefer to just wait until the issue comes out (targeted for late Spring), do not fear. We still love you with all our cuores ❤️ . Your support means the world to us. (You will still receive our free bi-monthly recipes plus newsletters!) While you wait, here is a repeat performance of one of our favorite Sicilian songs! ❤️ #volumeup!
xx, Michele ❤️ (and Joey too!)
p.s. The photo at the top was taken in Ortigia, a magical little place on the eastern coast of Sicily 🐟
Love the video!!