Piccolo in Catskill

Italians, Mexicans, Sky

After my first In Person Class at the Cairo Public Library

in almost two years (Reba has two suitors: one is 91 but

he has energy and is Not Out of the Running) we were all

happy to be together at last) we went to a newish

restaurant on Water Street in Catskill called Piccolo.

Sky Summer Night where everything becomes

red sky and blue and even if you’ve never taken a picture in your life

you want to take a picture. Catskill is changing but

not too much not Hudson and Piccolo

once a very good small Sardinian restaurant

run by a Staten Island barber.

now has a Mexican owner from Puebla. He makes

delicious clams oreganato and fragrant garlic rolls.

No Mexican food is on his menu. “My mother,”

he said, “made mole from scratch. Took her hours.

I just open a can.”