A Sicilian Chef Shares His Recipes in NYC
![A Sicilian Chef Shares His Recipes in NYC 1 Tortello filled with ricotta cheese, tomato sauce, parmigiana foam, basil and eggplant](https://maxhartshorne.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_4613-1.jpg)
I made my way to the far south part of Manhattan to Little Italy, past Chinatown’s stores to a restaurant called Margherita NYC. Inside, Sicilian chef Giuseppe Costa, who runs restaurant il Baviglino in Palermo.was preparing a four-course feast.
The evening was a bit awkward, if only because of the peculiar seating arrangements, with a table of nine travel and food writers with one empty chair. The chair remained covered by a coat while I was seated at an adjacent table, away from the conversation.
But I chatted with the staff, and they kept bringing out delectable offering like the pasta with tiny eggplant above, and the veal cheek below.
![A Sicilian Chef Shares His Recipes in NYC 2 Veal cheek with Nero d'Avola, chickpea cream and cabbage with fennel seed sauce.](https://maxhartshorne.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_4614.jpg)
The chef said he was at Margherita for a week, doing cooking demos and replacing the regular chef’s menus with his Sicilian specialties.
![A Sicilian Chef Shares His Recipes in NYC 3 Margherita NYC, on Grand Street in Little Italy.](https://maxhartshorne.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_4611.jpg)
The veal cheeks were so smooth they melted in my mouth, and the cabbage topping was flecked with a fennel seed sauce, infusing that licorice flavor in with the savory meat. Delicious!
The chef will be cooking at Margherita all week, 197 Grand St. Manhattan.
![A Sicilian Chef Shares His Recipes in NYC 4 Chef Giuseppe Costa from Palermo, Sicily.](https://maxhartshorne.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Costa-bw-300.jpg)
Visit the chef’s website.