Sicilian

It is long since it became no wonder to us that the greatest and in fact the only, real pastoral poet should have been a Sicilian; but it is a marvel indeed, that, having forgotten to bring his _Eclogues_ with us, we cannot, through the whole of Sicily, find a copy of Theocitus for sale, though there is a _Sicilian_ translation of him to be had at Palermo.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various

Kristin, Je pense que c'est plutôt "à la sicilienne" ... something tells me that "Sicilian" is not feminine enough.

illico - French Word-A-Day 2010

In France, they're a vital component of ratatouille, along with peppers and tomatoes; they play a starring role in Sicilian caponata, that combination of aubergine, celery, tomatoes and capers; and they are at their velvety best in southern Italian melanzane parmigiana, the meltingly delicious dish of layered aubergine, tomato and cheese; and, of course, Greeks love moussaka (see today's recipe).

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's aubergine recipes Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 2010

The pizza that people were calling grandma looked like a thin Sicilian slice.

Flatiron Lunch: Forget the Pizza, Maffei’s Baked Stuffed Fish is Where It’s At | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

Coral work is usually called Sicilian work, though it was also sometimes executed in Spain.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

In those days it was almost all what you would call Italian, but what I call Sicilian, because to me there’s a big difference.

How to Sell Anything to Anybody Joe Girard Stanley H. Brown 2005

Nicknamed the “Shark of Messina,” the Sicilian is the big “foreign” threat for the Spanish GC riders.

Vicenzo Nibali leads 2010 Vuelta as Joaquim Rodriguez wins stage 14 2010

While we're on Turkey: we got six figs so far off the Brown Turkey fig up along the warm wall, and about five off the White Sicilian, which is more decorative as a specimen tree but more delicate.

a tease 2009

The Sicilian were the only cities which they had ever encountered similar in character to their own,49 having the same democratic institutions and strong in ships, cavalry, and population.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

All anyone could talk about now was the coming confrontation between Crassus and Pompey; the plight of the Sicilian was a bore.

Imperium Robert Harris 2006