Sicilian "Panaru"
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Sicilian “panaru” is a basket made with hand-woven branches tied to a rope and dropped from the balconies.
The term "panaru" derives from the word "panaro", a Sicilian term to indicate the "basket". This basket was in fact traditionally used to transport bread, eggs or fruit.
The panaru is a piece of popular tradition that still survives today: it often happened, and still happens today, that it was tied to a rope and hung on the balconies, so as to be filled with bread and other foods by the vendors and raised up to the kitchen counter. for fruit and eggs they are taller and narrower.
In addition to the "panaro", in Sicily, we find other containers made by weaving cane or wild olive such as the "cartedde", which have a similar shape but smaller, the "fascedde "Which have no handles, used to transport and drain the cheeses, the" cufini "which were large baskets, the" cannistri ", wide and low, used to present food and traditionally exchanged for feasts life.
