Published in 2009 by
Grub Street
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Copyright this UK edition © Grub Street 1999, 2009
Text Copyright © Mary Taylor Simeti 1989, 2009
Cover design LizzieBdesign
This book was first published as Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty-Five Centuries of Sicilian Food in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1989.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Simeti, Mary Taylor
Sicilian food
1. Cookery, Italian—Sicilian style
I.Title
641.5’9458
ISBN 978-1-902304-17-5
eISBN 978-1-908117-91-5
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Garzanti Editore S.p.A.: Excerpt from the English translation of The Viceroys, by Federico De Roberto, published in 1972 by Garzanti Editore, Milano. Reprinted by permission.
Pantheon Books, Inc.: Excerpts from Two Stories and a Memory by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Copyright © 1962 by Wm. Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., and Pantheon Books, Inc.; and excerpts from The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Copyright © 1960 by Wm. Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., and Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, Inc.
Sellerio Editore: Translation by Mary Taylor Simeti of a brief excerpt from Pani e dolci della Sicilia by Antonio Uccello, published by Sellerio Editore, Palermo, 1976. Reprinted by permission.
George Weidenfeld & Nicholson Limited: Excerpts from The Happy Summer Days by Fulco di Verdura. Reprinted by permission of George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited, London.
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