Church spires, North Adams, Massachusetts.

  Farfalle pasta in a fava beans and slpit peas sauce. I little fresh hot pepper, in red, gave this healthy dish a tangier flavor.

                                  Boats waiting for the summer at Providence Rhode Island

Spaghetti  al pesto Genovese using the real recipe from my aunt's Grazia recipe. She lived in Genoa for many years. When you cook the pasta, add string beans and a cut up potato to the water. The traditional way is to use trofie pasta but I didn't have any so I settled for spaghetti. Either way when prepared this way the outcome is wonderful.

 A real "church lady," in charge of the annual strawberry festival at the Zion Episcopal Church in Queens, NYC. A wonderful indefatigable character.

 A dish that screams summer. Spaghetti with fried zucchine, pomodorini and muddica atturrata, toasted breadcrumbs. Una sinfonia di sapori. A symphony of flavors.

Swamp, Jacksonville, Florida.