Prior to my grand mother marriage, her family traveled by horse from
Partinico to Carini to visit her future husband family.
My grandfather was a builder and not being a landowner, he wanted to impress is future wife family by the amount of olive oil he possessed.
The story that I was told is that he took several oil barrels, he filled them with mostly water and the rest with olive oil.
As we know the oil rises to the top. In such a way he was able to convince them that he was worthy of their daughter.
