Summertime and the living is easy......

 Enjoy your summer

Gyozas in purple

 I really like gyozas I get them frozen and I preoare them my way with sesame oil, soy sauce, garlic, shallots and peperoncino. I paired them with steamed beets with olive oil and parsley and with purple yams that I prepared just like mashed potatoes. Besides being delicious, the are very nutritious.

Back to Venice. I keep finding nice shots from my archives. I love thecomposition and the colors of this digital image. I hope you agree. 
 

 Classic Italian comfort food, Stewed cannellini beans with sausage. The sausage is browned and put aside. As the beans are beginning to stew, the sausage is added. The result is a very tasty and nutritious dish.

 A. bunch of the guys enjoying a game of cards at Arthur Ave, the Bronx's little Italy and New York's only remaining true Little Italy/ Shot on Kodachrome a few years ago.

Eating in Sicily

 Pasta ca muddica or pasta with breadcrumbs. a simple and delicious fettuccine pasta with just a hint of tomato sauce and topped with muddica atturrata or toasted breadcrumbs was served by one of my Sicilian aunts to a very crowded able. I's hard to note that for expediency she used paper plates. No one seemed to care because the pasta wast very delicious and the company delightful.

 Appqrently she won the table centerpiece at a matinee event at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan. Shot with a Nikon F and the sublim5 105 F 2.f Nikkor lens on Kodachrome II.. Early seventies.