a legend in his own lunchtime
The Ballarò street market in Palermo is an amazing, chaotic and frenetic place. There are packed crowds, shouting, people singing, Vespas driving wildly between the rows of stalls. Every imaginable colour, smell, ingredient and probably some that I hadn't imagined too. Wonderful craziness everywhere.
The stallholder here is a prime example. He's one part chef, one part salesman and three parts street entertainer. And those aren't sausages on his grill but a Palermo delicacy called stigghiole: lamb intestines.
I have since discovered that Davide (that's his name) is something of a local legend. He has featured in a BBC travel documentary and I also found this blog article about him:
culinarybackstreets.com/cities-category/palermo/2023/el-b...
a legend in his own lunchtime
The Ballarò street market in Palermo is an amazing, chaotic and frenetic place. There are packed crowds, shouting, people singing, Vespas driving wildly between the rows of stalls. Every imaginable colour, smell, ingredient and probably some that I hadn't imagined too. Wonderful craziness everywhere.
The stallholder here is a prime example. He's one part chef, one part salesman and three parts street entertainer. And those aren't sausages on his grill but a Palermo delicacy called stigghiole: lamb intestines.
I have since discovered that Davide (that's his name) is something of a local legend. He has featured in a BBC travel documentary and I also found this blog article about him:
culinarybackstreets.com/cities-category/palermo/2023/el-b...