SB,
I don't remember if you said, do you speak Italian? Or does your family?
TIS
Btw, back to food, in my family (my dad's side), on December 13th, St. Lucy's Day, they make rice balls. There were personal reasons regarding an aunt of mine, who was thought to be going blind, and St. Lucy is the Patron Saint of the eyes....., anyway when my brother visited Sicily some years back he said they were selling riceballs. He got a kick out of it, because we thought it was only our family.