Another example of Italian comfort food. Escarole with dry fava beans. Just delightful.

Carmine Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan where every August, Our Lady of Pompeii Church celebrates Festa Italiana.
 

Dry fava beans with curly escarole. Healthful and delicious. Real comfort food.

 Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.

Italian organic bucatini prepared with pomodorini, onions and bacon. Delicious.

 

 Piazza del Palio in Siena, Tuscany. Here is where they run the famous palio di Siena, a horse race with teams from different neighborhoods. Something to see especially since the competition is held on a circular motion in this square with countless spectators behind small barricades. Occasionally someone gets hurt but not frequently. Many times the horses fare badly. It's a very long tradition going back to the renaissance.

 A rose by any other name....is emblematic of summer