An Old Italian Man With His Bread and Wine
by Philip And Robbie Bracco
Title
An Old Italian Man With His Bread and Wine
Artist
Philip And Robbie Bracco
Medium
Painting - Illustration
Description
This old man feels he could not survive without his Daily Bread and Wine just as he feels his soul could not survive without the Host which the priest places on his tongue each Sunday when he attends Mass at Saint Stevens Church.
He will meet his friends outside when the Mass is over and they will head over to the bakery where the baker is waiting for them and he has it ready. A Brown bag full of Frizzelles is waiting on the counter when they walk in. The smell is tantalizing as they enter the bakery and pay the baker for the Frizzelles and orders 2 large loaves of Italian Bread to take home for the Sunday meal which his wife has already started preparing.
His wife is watching for them to return and as soon as she sees them turn the corner, she gets the tray with four Demi Tasse cups and a hot pot of Italian Coffee which has been brewed right in the water and settled to the bottom of the pot. She knows that he expects the coffee to be piping hot and ready when he arrives.
They both appear on the stoop at exactly the same time and she spreads a red checkered cloth on one of the stoop steps to keep the coffee hot as the stone will absorb the heat from the boiling hot coffee and keep it at just the right temperature. He hands her the two loaves of bread which she takes back up the stairs to continue with her dinner of gravy and meatballs, Italian sausage and bracchiole stuffed with Italian bread crumbs, aged grated cheese, fresh parsley and garlic chopped with a few pinoli, all tossed in some olive oil and browned lightly before rolling them up in the beef and tying it with a string to hold it together. Soon the aroma will fill the air around the stoop as the windows are opened and other women are cooking their Sunday dinner as well. The kids will show up soon and break a piece off the end of that loaf of bread and dunk it into the gravy.
Life On The Stoop is good!
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October 22nd, 2019
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