Share Your Dream: The Layers of Sicily and Eggplant Parmigiana (August/September 2020)

This article originally appeared in the August/September 2020 issue of Dream of Italy. When I dream of Italy, I dream of Sicily and all the many ways they eat eggplant. That beautiful, shiny, dark purple vegetable is everywhere. You eat it hot and cold…in pasta and in salads…in caponata and, of course, in eggplant parmesan (parmigiana di melanzane). They say in Sicily that parmesan has nothing…