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In Quest Of: A food and wine road trip through Sicily

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David Fuhrmann-Lim

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SICILY, Italy – Palermo greets our morning flight with a soothing, baked light.

The oven warmth of the sun that caresses the Conca d’Ora (Golden Basin) cloaks the city with a cornetto glow, a view so beatific that it prompted Irish writer Oscar Wilde to proclaim Palermo the most beautifully situated town in the world.

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