Buona Pasqua a tutti; Happy Easter everyone.   

Auguri,

Suzanne

Photo by L.Turrisi

A few weeks ago I came across (for the first time) a delicious looking biscuit named after the heroic and dashing ‘leader of the Italian movement for national liberation’, Giuseppe Garibaldi. 

My curiosity was stirred.

The Italian hero and his English biscuit Garibaldi, who fought to unify Italy under the one monarch, Vittorio Emanuel II in 1861 (when he and his 'Redshirts' freed Sicily and Naples from the rule of the Bourbons in 1860) not only has street after street (plus lots more) named in his honour all the way down the peninsula from Venice to Palermo but he was so popular in England by 1861 that the English made a biscuit bearing his name.

Scenes from The Madonie: soaring mountains; bare cliff faces; lingering mist; open, green fields; grazing sheep; walking tracks; early evening light; rich autumn colours; sights of medieval ruins; mossy forests; ancient stone villages nestled in the mountains of  The Madonie (The Madonie National Park) and late December snow on the higher points.