Ustica Three

 

Family, Food and Friends!!

Ustica 2012

Page Three

Back at Pina's tavolo with visiting friends Mario Oddo and Giovanni Martucci. Mario lives in Palermo, we visited him there later. This was a delicious Pasta lunch !!
This is at the "Tavolo" of Aldo and Delfina Cannella, friends of the Bertucci's.They live out in the country. What a special meal !!! Mangia !!! Couldn't stop eating !! Their son Riccardo later stayed at our house while in San Diego.
We had such wonderful meals in Ustica !!! here we are at the table of Pietro and Pina, with brother Daniele. She treated us with such good cooking every day.
Here is the fish from one fisherman's morning catch. He sold it out of the back of his truck, or deliver to your house. Fresh local fish !!! Unheard of here.
Here is the buffet table for the meal at the top at the Cannella's. And there was more !! These Sicilian women know how to cook !!
FAVA beans what a treat, and from Pietro's garden in the country. One of my favorite foods in Sicily, hard to find in America.
Here we are at Letizia's house with 2 sons and some of her 11 grandchildren," nipoti". They were so excited to see us and wanted to know all about our families.
Here we are with another cousin, Letizia Manfre, of the Manfre family of our ancestor. She met us at Pietro's house and brought some rolls for another breakfast.
Cousin Rosa Licciardi Salerno invited us over for a breakfast, colazione, here is Rosa and Laurie enjoying the "dolce" and caffe. She had gifts for all of us, even for Tom.
Here is Letizia again,one of Letizia Manfre's grandaughters.. She is so cute and outgoing. She saw us in the street and yelled Marlene, caught my hand and demanded we follow her to her grandma's house.
Here are Pietro and Letizia, grandchildren of cousin Letizia Manfre. I had met them both with son Tom, when there in 2010, and they remembered me. They had sure grown.
This is a good picture of Pietro and Pina together, around their prolific table. This is the fava bean lunch, and on our last day, she cooked delicious Lenticchie beans from Ustica.

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