HUNGRY GERALD

Few things are better than Sunday dinner at the Riverside, RI, home of gifted daughter Lesley R, and her brilliant husband,  Massimo R., distinguished Professor and author. Lesley has numerous talents and skills (she has an important job as a communications director}. She is an excellent cook–?her pasta dishes are unsurpassed. Last night, Lesley made a lush dish of fusilli in  a tomato and sausage sauce. The tomato sauce was made by Lesley in Prince Edward Island (location of  F & R summer family home) in early September when local tomatoes were at their best. Wisely,  Lesley froze some jars of the good stuff and brought them back to Rhody. The happy family drank a tasty Beaujolais Nouveau with the wondrous fusilli pasta showered with freshly grated parmigiano. BSK recalled the days when the wine was inexpensive. Alas, no more. On the drive back to HG/BSK’s Central Falls, RI, loft, HG remembered the funny New Yorker cartoon: Penne says on telephone “Hey, Fusilli,you crazy bastard, how are you doing?”