The manna extracted from ash trees is also edible and remarkably sweet. The tree species, also known as Fraxinus ornus in Latin, has always been part of the local vegetation. One of the hills near ...

It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees, the buzzing of cicadas is interrupted by a voice. "You ...