I am on the island of Favignana and I see many changes. I am nostalgic for the island in the days of the tonnara. Click on the caption to see a slide show of those days.
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Rais Gioacchino Cataldo guest appearance on cooking show
March 7, 2016
Thanks to a heads-up from fellow Sicily lover Karen LaRosa of LaRosaWorks.com:
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Posted by Visit Egadi on Friday, February 19, 2016
A bloodless mattanza for tourists
February 29, 2016
I read in La Repubblica that the tonnara is coming back to Favignana, but just to draw tourists, and the men will not lift the tuna in teams of eight with lances of varying lengths as they used to. To know what a tonnara used to be like, please read my first book, Mattanza. Read More
SHort Break: Favignana Photos
October 28, 2015
Circa early- to mid-1990s. Here's the video link in case the embed code does not work:
http://vp.telvue.com/preview?id=T01304&video=61535
Gioacchino Cataldo before he was rais
May 1, 2012
Gioacchino on his way to place flowers on the graves of Favignana's former raises.
I followed him on my bike and wrote about it in Mattanza. Honest to God, he was like a character straight out of the movie Quo Vadis.
I followed him on my bike and wrote about it in Mattanza. Honest to God, he was like a character straight out of the movie Quo Vadis.
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