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Cuccìa is a traditional primarily Sicilian dish containing boiled wheatberries and sugar which is eaten on December 13 the feast day of Saint Lucy the patron saint of Siracusa (Syracuse). The dish is consumed in Sicily and in isolated pockets of Southern Italy as well as their communities abroad. It commemorates the relief from a food shortage in Sicily and the unexpected arrival of a cargo of wheat which tradition says arrived in the port of Palermo on Saint Lucy’s Feast in 1646.