A supremely delicious dish: pappardelle with eggplants and ricotta. Summer in a dish.

 Sailboat, Newport, Rhode Island.

A generous portion of rice with cauliflower in a light tomato sauce. Real comfort food.  

This striking image dates from the middle seventies when I was mainly shooting politicians. Jose Serrano was at the time running for the NYS assembly (he is currently In Congress) and was meeting with various community groups in The Bronx. I shot it with a Leica M2 R with the wonderful  50mm Summicron on Kodak Tri-X. This is one of my favorite images from that and needless to say the candidate won.
 

 On unlikely combination for my merenda (an italian traditional afternoon light meal) that I created. Ricotta on light toast coated with Italian EVO with green Sicilian Castelvetrano olives, Greek Kalamata olives, sprinkled with more EVO and incredibly aromatic Sicilian oregano. The taste was out of this world. I made only one as a test but I could have eaten at least a dozen. 

 My dear friend Tommaso who lives two houses up the block from me in Sicily.He is a fisherman who had brought home some freshly caught fish that he was preparing for a street barbecue. A wonderful man who will always lend a hand if you need it. Naturally, the fish were delicious.

I'm going through an escarole and beans period. This time it's curly escarole and black beans a super easy dish requiring a few chopped cloves of garlic, good EVO and a little fresh peperoncino. That's all folk. A very tasty and healthy vegetarian meal.