Description

At Nonno’s Italian Restaurant in Altamonte Springs, Florida, locals enjoy a variety of Sicilian seafood specialties lovingly prepared by the LaCommare Family. Across multiple generations, a customer favorite has long been Pollo di Stefano. The dish was developed by owner Leonardo LaCommare’s father Stefano, who came over from Sicily as a young man. Whenever Leonardo prepares it, the aroma of freshly sauteing garlic, chicken, and fragrant sherry fondly reminds Leonardo of learning to cook by his father Stefano’s side!

About La Farina

Today, many Italian doughs and pastas feature finely milled“00” farina (flour). But the cucina rustica of Italy’s contadini was based on homegrown flour. As a boy, restaurateur Paul Cataldo fondly remembers helping his Calabrian grandparents harvest their wheat. Before switching to a mechanical thresher in the 1980s, Paul’s grandfather laid out rows of dry, harvested wheat sheaves on packed soil. A team of cows was led over the sheaves to break the seeds from the stalks. Then an olive wood pitchfork tossed the stalks into the air to winnow seeds from chaff. The empty stalks were stacked for hay and the seeds were scooped up and carted to the local mill for grinding into their next year’s flour!