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Shut Your Mouth! Smell This! THE BOOK

It's an eBook. OK, it's not really a cookbook, and it's not really a photograph and art book. It is, but it isn't. It's about Philly and the Italian market area. It does have art style photos, not the usual stuff, but a lot of them are here. You can see for yourself. It's a fun read. Not a travelogue. And it's worth the $2.99 you'd have to pay at Kindle or Smashwords. And for free, you'll get to a Philly cheese steak and a cannoli read. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/565812 OR https://www.amazon.com/s?field-keywords=SHUT+YOUR+MOUTH%21+++SMELL+THIS%21+ITALIAN+SAUSAGE

Italian Market Signs

Ever wonder how many different stores and products there are in an Italian market? Ever wonder how to fit so much sign art and logos into one photograph? Wonder how long it would take? Regardless, they make for an interesting piece of art.

All Roads Lead To Italian Sausage

At any market, Italian or other, all roads lead to Italian sausage. Or, put another way, all food store ceilings are loaded with hanging sausage. They come at you from every direction and with every mild, pungent, or heavily spice laden smell. It's just a matter of finding what foods - vegetables, pastas and sauces to serve it with. If pepperoni really means green pepper, maybe that's the thing - American name or not - to serve with the sauce. All paths eventually do lead to Italian sausage.

Fruit & Vegetable Cart

The typical range of fruits and vegetables.

Fruitopia

Everyone's seen a bowl of fruit, but do you see them in the market? This is one of them. It's a fruit cart sitting outside a chocolate candy store.

Box Stand

The vegetable cart seller is surrounded by the emptied, folded boxes of fruits and vegetables he unloaded to his cart. It's not unusual to see more boxes than ever seen in one place. And, this is a very small number of boxes by comparison.

Cubic Fruit

A cubic bowl of fruit. Cubic pineapple with cubic oranges mango's, and bananas - now that's more interesting than a traditional Bowl Of Fruit --- or vegetables. It's a way of showing off the more faces, colors, and patterns of things we take for granted - that everyday look. Many recipes call for square-cut ingredients. So why not cubic fruit photos.

Melons Squared

There's nothing like squared melons. Each has a unique taste. Also, they're not a problem to stay put and not roll off the table.

Cheese Array

There's nothing more torturous than coming across a chese store in the Italian market that's loaded with every cheese there is, and every pickled, olive oiled, peppered and smoked appetizer combination and barrel.A step inany direction will fill your eyes and nostrils It's never a matter of what to choose; always how many and how much.

Eggplants and Peppers

Eggplants having a glossy skin can mirror their surroundings. Their shape can mold and create their own modern, pop and abstract art. They reflect green and red hot pepper art.

Vegetables Squared

Do you see much vegetable art? There's always the Bowl Of Fruit style. Ever see vegetables as a square meal? That's Cubic Art I meant to say. I photo'd many vegetables in a outdoor market that has cart-after-cart of vegetables. I needed something more enjoyable create to look at. Gets a lot of attention on the wall.

Eggplant Cubed

Cubic eggplant with cubic peppers is more interesting than a bowl of fruit --- or vegetables in this instance. It's a way of showing off the more faces, colors, and patterns of things we may take for granted - that everyday look. Many recipes call for square-cut ingredients. Here, they're kept whole to admire.

Spiced Crabs

Spiced Crabs: Cooked crabs are always steamed with heavy spices. The combination of their shells turning a bright red and the red hot spices contributes the design of the crabs laid out in trays for sale. A reflexive burning tongue and tearing eye also adds to their attraction for sale especially if located next to a beer seller.

Butterfish

Butterfish are the typical fish you may find displayed in the seafood section of your market. They're usually carefully arranged on a platter in their usual black, white, grey, and blue colors. But art has its leeway and wants to arrange them in its own direction and colors that are more appealing. Would you buy butterfish if they looked like these? The advantage of these butterfish is they will last longer on the wall than on the tray in the cooler

Pasta Layers

How do they make your ordered pasta at the Italian market. What size; what ingredients; what width? It's one sheet , a flatenned page. One size of pasta - your choice - at a time.

Pasta Mix Two

t what flavors to add to each at various times. Each has its own color, and curl. Each becomes a reminder of what you want next: what to buy; what to cook; how to present it. Over time, the instinct repeats itself.

Pasta Mix

Lay out a mixture of pastas and the almost neutral tastes suggest what flavors to add to each at various times. Each has its own color, a twist and curl. Each becomes a reminder of what you want next: what to buy; what to cook; how to present it. Over time, the instinct repeats itself.

Cubic Italian Sausage & Ch

There's always the thought of a plate of spaghetti, or linguine with sausage and a sprinkle of the right cheese - or cheese without the sausage. But, here's Cubic art of some of the ingredients deconstructed to image that you can reassemble the way you'd like it. The linguine - pick one - spaghetti, tomatoes, garlic, and more...

In Praise Of Shopping Bags

We've likely spent a good part of our lives carrying shopping bags here to there. They carry things. They sell things with the names they have on the front and back. Is there a front and back? There're good bags and bad bags. We can praise or curse them. There are even persons yelling selling shopping bags for a living. This can Bag on and on, but this is a visual praise.

Spice Store Bouquet

Nothing like cooking and eating a bouquet of vegetables having spices behind them. Or in the case, a spice store.

Vegetable Bouquet & Mural

Nothing like cooking and eating a bouquet of vegetables having spices behind them. Or in the case, a spice store. All are located next to the wall mural and across the street from the coffee shop.

Mural & Veg Bouquet Cubed

Nothing like cooking and eating a bouquet of vegetables having spices behind them. Or in the case, a spice store that's located next to the wall mural and across the street from the coffee shop. A lot to see.

Avocado Squared

The Avocado cart - normal round oval shaped green avocados are next to cubic square art shape avocados mingling with multi-color beans and peppers