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Clemente Ventrone bathing in the Chamber of Death after a mattanza. Mid 1990s.

Rais Salvatore Spataro, circa 1993, supervising the setting of the Chamber of Death floor.

Gioacchino Cataldo, who eventually became the last rais of the favignana tonnara.

Pulling up the Chamber of Death

Friends at Bue Marino on Favignana.

Favignana: Getting ready to set up I santi, the cross bearing the saints who watch over the tuna trap.

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Nonfiction

The Stone Boudoir; Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily

A look at life in little-known mountain towns of the Sicilian hinterlands.

Mattanza; Love and Death in the Sea of Sicily

A true account of the last years of an ancient Sicilian giant bluefin tuna trap.

Heart of Palermo

My lunch

March 25, 2014

Tags: swordfish, Acitrezza, restaurant, Le Nespole

Swordfish rollatini

I had swordfish rollatini and grilled veggies.

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May 28, 2014 8:14 PM EDT

Looks good. I think a certain someone ate very well in Palermo. :-)

- Fafa

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Los Angeles Times

Mattanza Book Review

The PBS show interviewed me.

To the Best of Our Knowledge

Listen now: Theresa Maggio talks with Steve Paulson about the mattanza

An Italian professor interviewed me

Sicily Inside and Out

An interview

The Unwilling Expat

an Australian blogger living in Sicily interviews me

Slide show of my year in Via Terza Compagnia

Favignana tonnara

Slide show: Island life in the mid-1990s

A comprehensive site about Sicily and its culture.

Qualify for Italian Citizenship

IDC information about the requirements for Italian citizenship by descent (jure sanguinis).

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