Girolamo Lo Sicco, one of the most famous Sicilian gourmets, died because of a sudden illness. He had also founded Slow Food Sicilia. Lo Sicco was 56 years old. He died in San Vito Lo Capo while he was having dinner in a restaurant owned by a friend. He had been one of the most careful and acute narrators of food and wines. He combined irony with great skills: he worked with Guida Ristoranti Espresso, Slow Food Gambero Rosso for wines, and he had recently written a book, “Memorie gastronomiche della città perduta”, a suggestive story about a young boy’s initiation about the pleasure of food. The book proposes Palermo’s cuisine of the 1960s and the life style of a city whose cultural identity would have been destroyed by uncontrolled building.  

Translated by Chiara Nunnari from John Milton Institute