Search This Blog

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Ethnic food


I drive past this restaurant almost every day, and only now did it occur to me to snap a photo as I was waiting for the traffic light to change.  Schenectady was noted for her Italian immigrants at the turn of the last century; particularly southern Italy and Sicily.  Even now, Italian surnames are quite commonplace.  Poles and Hungarians had an influx mid-century and today we have Guyanese moving in.  There are small populations of Pakistanis and Chinese too.  We have many interesting faces, sounds and names on our streets.  This take-out restaurant has signs for many of them: halal, kebabs, pizza, gyros, pasta, fried chicken... and they deliver!  The famous Leaning Tower of Pisa is apparently the only Italian illustration the sign maker could find; as an attraction of northern Italy, the famous tower isn't particularly evocative of the many southern Italians.

F Number5.6
Lens IDLUMIX G VARIO 14-45mm F3.5-5.6
Focal Length39.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 78.0 mm)
Exposure Time1/125
Exposure ProgramProgram AE
ISO200
Exposure Compensation0
FlashOff, Did not fire

No comments:

Post a Comment

The spammers have struck. Due to this I will be moderating all comments. Sorry for the hassle, but it's the only choice because I refuse to turn on word verification.

Blog Widget by LinkWithin