Sicily Street Sellers - night friut salad Palermo
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Sicily Street Food Sellers – night

Sicilian Street Food Sellers are usually based in their home towns, like the top photo of a fresh fruit salad “macedonia” seller, based in Palermo.

Shot at night in the streets of Palermo during the various festivals. Sicily Street Food Sellers is a 3 year photography project captured in colour and began in 2016.

Sicily Street Sellers - night stall lights Palermo
Setting up for the night, Kalsa – Palermo
Sicily Street Sellers - night Tony's sons hot bread rolls Palermo
Rocky Basile sons preparing Pane ca’ Meusa, Palermo

Rocky Basile “il Re della Vucciria”. The Basile family has been preparing sandwiches with spleen “Pane ca’ Meusa” for almost 70 years, just think that in the meantime three generations have followed one another. The mobile stall goes back and forth between the Vucciria market and Corso Vittorio Emanuele.

Pane ca’ Meusa, Palermo

Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo toasted "castagne" chestnuts
Roasted chestnuts “castagne“, Palermo

Chestnuts “castagne” roasted with coarse salt on street corners in the caliator – chestnut BBQ roast cooker.

Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo toasted "castagne" chestnuts
Roasted chestnuts “castagne“, Palermo
Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo fairy floss
Sweets and fairy floss “zucchero filato“, Palermo
Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo seafood, meat, chicken & vegetable grill
Grilled seafood “pesce alla griglia“, Vucciria – Palermo
Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo sausage "salsiccia" & meat grill
Grilled meats “stigghiola“, Vucciria – Palermo

On the streets of Palermo, skewered spirals sizzle atop grills, beckoning passersby with the aroma of fire-cooked meat. This is stigghiola, a Sicilian delicacy consisting of a mixture of lamb, goat or veal intestines cut into small discs. Since the offal’s juices will provide plenty of flavor, vendors known as stiggiholaros lightly season their offerings by stuffing them with chopped onions and parsley. Once the stigghiola becomes crispy, the vendor simply adds squeezed lemon juice.

Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo fresh oysters "ostriche"
Fresh oysters “ostriche fresche“, Vucciria – Palermo
Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo fairy floss
making fairy floss “zucchero filato“, Palermo

raspado” shaved ice, Palermo

Raspado shaved ice is made from frozen water that is doused in syrups, whereas granita siciliana italian ice is a semi-frozen dessert made from sugar, water and various flavorings or from frozen fruit juices and has a similar texture to a sorbet.

Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo. Fried seafood bread roll
Pane con panelle o crocche’, Palermo

Pane, panelle e crocchè a simple but really tasty stuffed sandwich. Panelle are delicious pancakes made from a mixture of chickpea flour, water, parsley and salt which are placed inside a sesame bread bun together with crocchè, small potato croquettes flavored with parsley and pepper.

Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo. Meat organs griller
Grilled meats “stigghiola“, Festa di Santa Rosalia, Palermo
Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo. Mixed nut seller
“Salatini” mixed nuts and salted snacks seller, Palermo
Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo. Snail seller
Babaluci” small snails seller, Palermo

Fresh fruit salad “macedonia” seller and a mobile ape van “gelato” seller, Festa di Santa Rosalia, Palermo

Sicily Street Sellers - night Palermo. Street dining with friends in summer
Taking a break from a hot summer night, Palermo