SICILIAN

The roots of Colannino's Sicilian were firmly planted in the ancient soil of Sicily long before the Romans, Greeks, or even the Sicani of stone-age Italy ever found their way to the largest island of the Mediterranean Sea. Before the Romans, before the Greeks, before even the earliest records of civilization, was the ancient bond forged of man, olive and bee. Men cultivated and nurtured the olive, and it in return provided food and fuel, fruit and oil, leaf and wood. The bee came to help the warm winds pollinate the olive and for its trouble found nectar and pollen to produce honey and wax - enough to share with the men who nurtured the trees. And when the men discovered how to blend the bees' wax with the olive's oil, both the tree and the bee were used to heal and soothe the men whose toils benefited them all. Now, we make these same ancient balms and balsams devised by our ancestors untold millennia ago available to a modern world. In this sharing, we renew the ancient bond of man,..