As you know, Sicily has been a land were all big cultures came around: Greek brought olives and the olive oil culture, while Romans grape and wine and after Arabic brought citrus and Spanish conquistadores chocolate. So now a days, all this products are still available here, even popular ‘Modican Choccolate’ is following and old recipe by the Spanish Conquistadores (that imported from the Aztech). Probably citrus, expecially lemons, we know were used by Romans as a remedy to ‘sgorbuto’ (gouged) a widespread disease on the Roman vessels, who usually did great load of fresh lemons and lemons plants before crossing the Mediterranean.