About

Hello everyone!  I'm Elena, a girl who likes to believe she is more than 50% Italian but who was born in Mississippi, and you can't get much more American than that.  Although I may not have been born there, I still identify the most with my mother's homeland of Italy, particularly Sicily, where I visit every summer and have fantastic times.   This blog is going to be about Sicilian food and culture mostly, because I have noticed a severe lack of Sicilian representation on the internet, probably because most of Sicily is old people and old people can't internet very well, if my grandmother is any example.  So here I am to bring the wonders of the Italian island to you lovely people!  Oh, I also looove to cook and read about food, and photography is my favorite thing to do with food aside from eat it, so I really need an outlet for all that.
The name, La Sbobba, is the word my grandmother uses to describe a mishmash of leftover things she throws into a pan and makes delicious, the only requirement being that it includes stale bread, which she always has an abundance of.  The classic sbobba is made from boiled greens, stale bread, potatoes, and chili flakes, an unlikely combination that I swear to you is surprisingly wonderful.  So this blog will be exactly that, a mishmash of various things that hopefully will become a delicious whole.