/.. artichokes, tomato and parsley, ricotta and onion, parsley and sun-dry tomato. In August the month of the favourite vegetable, everywhere onion is served. In pubs and pastry shops, pastries are always fresh and genuine. Ricotta pastries, cream pastries, and ricotta, chocolate and coffee pastries. Cakes are simple and homemade as good as once they used to be. Giarratana land also produces wheat, legumes, oil, almonds and so many other products in big quantities. Housewives exploit these products with ancient recipes orally handed on by peasant wisdom.