One thing we noticed in our six-month walk across Sicily is that almost every family makes olive oil at home.
It is the first time that we see a bond with the land becoming so conspicuous. Some people, living out of Sicily, come back home every autumn and help their relatives with the harvest.
The good part of crossing this land on foot is that we could see all the stages of this ritual: families picking olives under the mild November sun, the coming and going in front of oil mills, the perfumed and peppered oil we found in each house that opened the doors to us.
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