The Sicilian specialty, ice cream served in a briosca (brioche sandwich) is terrifyingly delicious.
Just to be precise, Mafia, or even Cosa Nostra, should in fact refer only to the Sicilian version.
FBI, law-enforcement authorities are now trying to use techniques developed against the Sicilian Mafia to fight the maras.
Experts say the 'Ndrangheta has overtaken the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia and become one of the world's biggest criminal organisations.
The proceeds from contracts are believed to have been channelled to the fugitive head of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Matteo Messina Denaro.
Items against which the Sicilian bank has lent money, including watches, jewellery and silverware, are due to be auctioned between May 28th and June 3rd.
The mayor of the Sicilian town of Corleone, famous for its connections to the Cosa Nostra mafia, has apologised to victims of the criminal network.
The Sicilian regional government is gripped by a financial crisis.
From Tunis to Lebanon to the Gulf States to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Mr. Qureia has overseen a confidence operation that puts the Sicilian Mafia to shame.
The BBC's Alan Johnston, in Rome, says that although the mafia still has a presence in the town, some 60km from the Sicilian capital, Palermo, it is no longer the force it once was there.
More than 1, 000 workers from Termini Imerese, the Sicilian plant threatened with closure under the restructuring plan, will be driven to Rome for a demonstration to coincide with crisis talks between Mr Berlusconi, his key ministers and Fiat management.
Italians, it seems, are spending their summer holidays happily ensnared in the Sicilian underworld, courtesy of a 73-year-old television screenplay writer turned novelist, Andrea Camilleri, a Rome-based native Sicilian with no fewer than three books now in Italy's current top ten for fiction.
Riina, known as The Beast, is currently serving multiple life-sentences after leading the Corleonesi faction of the criminal network to the top of the Sicilian mafia and waging a ruthless campaign of violence against rival mobsters and the Italian state in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Dr. Ferrara joined Genentech as a junior scientist in 1988, and his colleagues were charmed by the slightly disheveled Sicilian who drove to work on his Yamaha VMAX motorcycle and paced the hallways, muttering to himself, when his work was going well.
Consciously or not, investigators around the world took the model of the American and Sicilian Mafia as their blueprint.
The latest polls give Mr Berlusconi and his two main allies (in the Northern League and a Sicilian regional party) a lead of between 6.5 and 9.4 percentage points over the Democratic Party.
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Once at sea, the three revealed themselves as Sicilian drug smugglers.
Turns out woman behind Morano Gelato (Morgan Morano, naturally) grew up here in Hanover before moving to Italy for six years, during which time she worked in gelaterias, learning the trade mostly from a Sicilian gelato chef who became her mentor.
The sculptor depicts him as a strong, staring Sicilian, his sad face encircled with curls.
It, it visits Leichhardt's best food outlets, teaches the history of Italians in the area and culminates in a cooking demonstration and Sicilian lunch.
The artisanal dry goods are a mix of local (hand-labelled bottles of upstate maple syrup) and imported (Sicilian anchovies in salt) the stuff gift baskets are made of.
Antonin Gregory Scalia was born in 1936 and admitted to being the center of attention as the only child, doted on by his father, a Sicilian-born professor of romance languages, and his mother, a schoolteacher.
The meal didn't begin auspiciously: bland, almost tasteless Sicilian green olives and bread delivered rather stagily in a brown paper bag, albeit with beautifully creamy butter.
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But the suggestion by several delegates to the UN convention that the old Mafia was beaten was met with a heavy dose of Sicilian scepticism - not least in Corleone itself.
All of this is served on a particular roll baked for the express purpose, a round, flat bun derived from a traditional Sicilian bread.
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Soon, I'd crashed the Valdiserra family table for dessert, as Franco continued pushing everything from chocolates to a sweet Sicilian dessert wine.
Armed with a degree in sports medicine and little else he had given up playing organized soccer at the age of 16, though he was a competitive handball player he began coaching amateur teams in dusty Sicilian backwaters.
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