Bed-Stuy Brooklyn in the early eighties just before gentrification kicked in. What a great color.

 Italian potato gnocchi with Sicilian style ground beef ragu' What can be better on a cold day.

                                        Eventually spring will arrive; I getting very impatient.

 Naturally, being Italian I love pasta yet, when the weather turns cold and nasty, there's nothing like a minestra to comfort me. This is a beans, kale, cauliflower and squash soup that accompanied with rustic Italian bread dripping with olive oil warms up my heart and satisfies my palate like nothing else. 

 The Louvre Museum metro station in Paris. A vintage Ektachrome from 1970. It'e even more beautiful now.

 Italian pappardelle pasta with Sicilian style chopped meat ragu' that is with added peas. To complete this culinary wonder. I added ricotta. What's not to like. 

 Morning on Mott Street in New York's Chinatown. Ektachrome.