Sunday, July 12, 2026


 I love salmon and try to eat it once a week because it also provides omega 3 among other beneficial nutrients. Here I prepared with pomodorini and grill asparagus. Very nice.

Saturday, July 11, 2026


 Blue flowers are rather rare in nature but they are usually exquisite. This is an early digital close up from flowers in my garden.


 A supremely delicious dish: pappardelle with eggplants and ricotta. Summer in a dish.


 Sailboat, Newport, Rhode Island.

Friday, July 10, 2026


A generous portion of rice with cauliflower in a light tomato sauce. Real comfort food.  

This striking image dates from the middle seventies when I was mainly shooting politicians. Jose Serrano was at the time running for the NYS assembly (he is currently In Congress) and was meeting with various community groups in The Bronx. I shot it with a Leica M2 R with the wonderful  50mm Summicron on Kodak Tri-X. This is one of my favorite images from that and needless to say the candidate won.
 


 On unlikely combination for my merenda (an italian traditional afternoon light meal) that I created. Ricotta on light toast coated with Italian EVO with green Sicilian Castelvetrano olives, Greek Kalamata olives, sprinkled with more EVO and incredibly aromatic Sicilian oregano. The taste was out of this world. I made only one as a test but I could have eaten at least a dozen. 

 I love salmon and try to eat it once a week because it also provides omega 3 among other beneficial nutrients. Here I prepared with pomodor...