SICILY: LAND OF WHEAT
Even the sacred scriptures tell us about wheat, just think of the word “bet-leheni” which means house of bread. The world of Romans and Greeks also spoke of wheat, the Greek goddess Demeter had a daughter from Zeus, Persephora.
The young girl was kidnapped and it is said that Demeter, for the joy of having found her daughter, made the wheat germinate. Demeter was adopted by the Romans with the name Ceres (hence the term cereal). Sicily became a granary that the Greeks exploited after having expelled the Sicilians.
Wheat has not only traced the history of man, but it has traced, and still traces today, the landscape of our territory. All over the world and in all the magazines, Sicily is identified with a warm colored landscape and bright yellow hills.
Wheat is also considered as a brand that identifies Sicily. Our island is famous for the artistic itineraries from city to city, from town to town, but the predominant landscape is undoubtedly the one shaped by the cultivation of wheat in the different areas of Sicily.