Only a few kilometers before the more famous San Vito Lo Capo, there is a small village called Macari, which until a few years ago was only a place of passage, holiday homes that we looked at from the window of our cars passing quickly, set in a frame of barren vegetation but with Mediterranean colors, with a unique, wild and full of strength sea view. This is how I like to describe this place, and of those who have believed in Macari for many years, who have wanted to bet in a barren, silent paradise but with a strength that comes from an arid, sunny yellow ground.

Among these stands out Marilù Terrasi, a rock that separates the sea from the land. And in the middle there is her, who embraces her territory with strength, with the determination of a passion made up of years of work and sacrifices. The “Pocho”, his creature, is an example of all this. His dishes perfectly express the flavor of the Mediterranean, like the Cous Cous “crossed” only by his hands. Typically Sicilian pasta recipes, with a choice of fresh and seasonal ingredients together with an attention to detail that make everything a unique flavor.

From the hands of the writer Gaetano Savatteri, a lover of his territory, all this is wonderfully represented: the passion, the nostalgia, the melancholy that we Sicilians love to call Sicily and that only we know how to recognize, in that dawn that we see growing in the morning from the sea . The flavors mix with the words and songs that Marilù makes us listen to and that caress us like the sea breeze that rises lightly. We become actors in a set created by the writer’s imagination and protagonists of an episode that is ours alone, with the most beautiful landscape that nature has been able to offer us. So, thank you Marilù for opening this door to paradise for us, for making us savor it and for making us live it in the stories of the great Gaetano Savatteri.