On Friday, January 20th, 2023, Veronica Di Grigoli took members of the National Capital Lawyers Auxiliary on a virtual journey called “Escape to Sicily.” Little did they know it should really have been called, “A Taste of Sicily.” In an ingenious presentation, Di Grigoli guided the audience through 13 separate invasions of Sicily by highlighting the food and recipes they left behind.

Starting with the cave paintings of the Sikeloi, the original tribe that gave Sicily it’s name, Di Grigoli explained the biblical “manna from heaven” is believed to be manna from the Fraxinus Ornus tree that can only be found in a few spots on earth, one of them being, Sicily.