HUNGRY GERALD

 Italian Corner on 10 Boyd St. in Seekonk, Ma., is a culinary Italian food masterpiece, as good as the emporiums on New York’s Lower East Side and The Bronx’s Belmont neighborhood (Arthur Avenue). It’s a delicatessen\ grocery\ purveyor of hot meals\soups\salads….and more, much more. The variety of foods is encyclopedic—the tastes are down home savory. It’s HG’s favorite hangout in Rhode Island. (Hemenway’s in Providence is another favorite–great for oysters and their Paris style Fruits de Mer tower.) Yes, we eat well in little Rhody. Today, BSK picked up a big bowl of steaming pasta e fagioli(Pasta and beans—New York’s late, beloved Mayor LaGuardia called the dish “Pastafazoole.)  HG had a big lush bowl last night enhanced with olive oil, parmesan and hot pepper flakes. Fabulous. Happily, there were ample leftovers for lunch the next day.