Bring the warmth of a big Sicilian family table into your own kitchen.

Aunt Sadie’s Sicilian Kitchen is more than a collection of recipes. It is a celebration of family, tradition, Sunday dinners, holidays, and the simple ingredients that helped generations of Sicilian cooks create unforgettable food.

Inspired by the Sharamitaro and Ciaramitaro family’s roots in Terrasini, Sicily, this cookbook brings together the kinds of dishes that filled the table, fed a crowd, and became part of the family story. From a slow pot of Sugu simmering for hours to hand rolled spiedini, fresh ravioli covered in sauce, holiday seafood, rustic breads, rich pasta dishes, and Aunt Sadie’s famous cassata cake, these are recipes built around flavor, patience, and sharing.

Inside you’ll find 100 recipes across 10 chapters, including Sunday breakfasts, traditional pasta dishes, grilled favorites, seafood, garden vegetables, roasts, small plates, holiday classics, cakes, cookies, and Italian sweets.

You’ll discover favorites such as Gramma Mary Sharamitaro’s Sicilian Sugu, Charlie Sharamitaro’s Grilled Spiedini, Aunt Sadie’s Ravioli with Sugu, Christmas Manicotti, Feast of the Seven Fishes, Sicilian Cannoli, Cuccidati, Ricotta Cookies, and Aunt Sadie’s Sicilian Cassata Cake.

The recipes are approachable, generously portioned, and rooted in a style of cooking where fresh ingredients mattered, nothing was wasted, and there was always room for one more person at the table.

This is the food of Sunday afternoons, crowded kitchens, holiday gatherings, stories told over dinner, and recipes passed from one generation to the next.

If you love authentic Italian American cooking, Sicilian flavors, old family recipes, hearty Sunday dinners, and food made to be shared, pull up a chair. Aunt Sadie’s kitchen is open.