Nonna Lydia tells me that according to a Palermitano legend, there was a great famine in Sicily in the mid-1600s, and the people were desperate to find food to nourish their families. On December 13, which happened to be the feast day of Saint Lucy, a ship miraculously appeared in the port containing bundles of wheat, and the people rejoiced. Not having the patience to wait for the wheat to be brought to the mills and ground into flour, they decided to quickly cook the whea
