AUTUMN IN NEW YORK. Morning light at Juniper Valley Park, Queens, NYC. Splendid. 

 Sicilian spaghetti with garlic but it would be too simple a dish so along with the garlic it has lots of basil, fresh tomatoes and optional toasted breadcrumbs. The trick is to balance the flavors so that no ingredient overwhelms the others. A really easy and delicious dish.

 Atlantic City, NJ,  fall of 1976 when America was celebrating her 50th anniversary and before the casinos. It was a time of urban decay that the coming casinos never improved. 

 Another culinary home run. Special fall Italian pasta from Trader Joe's in a pesto di zucchine with bacon topped with roasted walnuts. Delicious.

 I have posted this image before but I just love it. Also I have mentioned the special, almost magical quality of the film I used only on special occasions -GAF-64 AKA Anscochrome 64- it was hard to find and way back in the seventies Kodachrome and Ektachrome ruled the day. Nevertheless this film was very special indeed. GAF/Ansco also used to make a superb photo paper called Cykora that was also very intriguing but equally hard to find.

 This is my definitive version of pasta with cauliflower arriminata which means stirred. It is a Sicilian dish from Palermo. It forms, along with pasta con sarde and pasta alla norma the culinary height of Sicilian cuisine. Of course there are many other dishes that are famous and delicious making Sicily a true culinary paradise. Of course Italian cuisine is also famous for it's vast regional differences and variety, but this I leave for another day. Getting back to the present dish of a somewhat complex nature, it is absolutely a taste of Sicily and a delicious one.

 Courtyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.