Ode to Sicily

In Los Angeles, Chef Adam Sobel marries California bounty with Sicilian imports to create a singular experience for diners at his restaurant, Cal Mare.

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It’s dusk in Corleone, Sicily. From the jaw-dropping hilltop view overlooking the golden wheat fields and lush olive groves of Bona Furtuna, Adam Sobel, executive chef of Osteria Cal Mare in Los Angeles, California, ponders how for hundreds of years, people have been enjoying something as simple as an olive while watching the same sunsets we see today.

This is Chef Sobel’s third visit to Bona Furtuna, a 350-acre organic farm owned by Steve Luczo, former CEO of Seagate Technology. Built just six years ago on land where his grandmother was raised, the farm has a history so rich an archaeological site dating to 600 B.C. was recently discovered its property. Sobel finds inspiration in the rich history and distinct flavors of the products grown on the Sicilian farm, and he has partnered with Luczo to import his favorites—the bedrocks of the Mediterranean diet—to highlight the California bounty he equally reveres. 

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