Porcini at a Farmers Market in Sicily

It was time for a change. Although I love the picture of Procida I've had at the top of this blog since 2008, I was getting a little tired of looking at it. I took it while standing on a cliff overlooking a sweeping view of the island in the Bay of Naples. It's quite a beautiful place. It's a place where mostly Italians go to vacation, and, in 2008, I had the privilege of visiting there with a group of American press and food writers. I reported about that trip in previous posts--just do a search on this blog for Naples and/or Procida.

Except for pictures I've credited otherwise, I've taken all the pictures on this blog, like this new one. The porcini were being sold from a make-shift table set up at an exhaust-clogged highway intersection on the way to Tescastagni in Sicily. There were 3 "farmers" standing around near the table, smoking. I think they were Albanians. Since I didn't have a kitchen to cook the porcini at the time, the best I could do was to take a picture, which I did, the result of which is above. Hope you like it!