Cuccìa PAT
A Sicilian porridge of boiled wheatberries and sugar, eaten on December 13 for Saint Lucy’s feast. It commemorates Sicily’s relief from a food shortage and the arrival of wheat in Palermo in 1646.
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The dish is consumed in Sicily and in isolated pockets of southern Italy, as well as their communities abroad. It commemorates the relief from a food shortage in Sicily and the unexpected arrival of a cargo of wheat, which tradition says arrived in the port of Palermo on Saint Lucy's Feast in 1646. According to custom, bread should not be eaten on December 13; cuccìa should be the only source of wheat, and the primary source of nourishment for the day.