Penne rigate with artichokes in a light cream sauce. delightful. However good artichokes are not easy to find and they have become rater pricey. But the stomach comes first.

 

 This picture is worth posting again. A vintage Kodachrome from the summer of 1972 shot in Agrigento, Sicily. The valley of the temples, a vast area where some of the best preserved Greek temples in all Magna Grecia are located. It's now an architectural park totally full of tourists and shut at night. Way back then one could drive close and personal at any time pf the day or night. BTW, the moon is real;no Photoshop. 

 A delicious hot antipasto. Enough said.

 This is what a true Sicilian eggplant looks like in Sicily. Just picked early in the morning and bought at my favorite frutta e verdura establishment in Castellammare del Golfo. The flavor is totally heavenly.

                                 A sunny spring day at the plaza of the Louvre museum in Paris.

 A quintessential Sicilian dish: pasta alla carrettiera or pasta eaten by carters on their lunch break. In this case I used spaghetti. It's a real simple and economical dish but more important it's very easy to make. It's like a classic aglio ed olio with added with ingredients found in the field such as parsley, wild fennel etc. . The dish is finished with incanestrato or classic Sicilian pecorino. This dish has evolved with many other additions but I prefer making it as original as possible.

 This is to me a very disturbing image. I shot it at Central Park, Manhattan, in the early seventies with a Leica M-2 and the 90mm F 2.8 Elmarit lens. I was also on a boat. There is something unsettlig in this composition. The film was Tri_X, naturally.