What is this?

It is from a beach town, but we're not at the beach...it was drying out after just being made on a street...and we're off to dinner and soon we shall eat...

Answer:

PASTA drying on a screen...we are in Bari now in the heel of Italy.

Rome was explosively wonderful and I shall catch up with that soon...Vatican, Forum, Colasseum, Spanish Steps, oh yes, we walked and walked and walked and a few details to follow.