A Pictorial Paean to Farming and Food
© 2013 C. Bertelsen. No copying of photographs without my permission.
Categories: Agriculture, Cattle, Local foods, Photography, Sheep • Tags: Artist statement, Cattle, Farming, Food, Injera, Photography, Sheep
Category Archives: Cattle
The Meat of the Matter: A Question of Sacred Reverence
Meat eating presents modern society with a bit of a dilemma. How to raise and slaughter large numbers of animals under humane conditions, while keeping the price down and within wallet reach of most consumers? That’s the major issue, tinged with other, often moralistic, questions. First, right up front, I am not a vegetarian, and never will be, despite having fumbled with the idea a few times. My first experience with vegetarianism came about chiefly out of curiosity. The central […]
Categories: Africa, Agriculture, Beef, Cattle, Cooking, Festivals, Hunger, Lent, Local foods, Photography • Tags: Beef, Bruce Aidells, Farming, Meat, Michael Symon, Photography, Vegetarianism
Another Holy Trinity of the Kitchen: The Magic of Milk, Eggs, and White Flour
Every time I pour crêpe batter into my 8-inch Teflon*-lined crêpe pan, I see deep scratches, the ones that Habiba made with the fork she used while cooking a three-egg cheese-and-herb omelet one wintry Moroccan morning. The scratches don’t affect the pan’s performance, just as wounds and scars don’t fundamentally change who we are and how we function in the world. Pots and pans, like sugar-burned hands and fingers cut by dull knives, bear pale scars. These blemishes remind me […]
Categories: Agriculture, Cattle, Cooking, Eggs, France, French Cooking, Local foods, Milk, Morocco, Photography, Techniques • Tags: Crêpes, Eggs, Flour, France, French Cooking, Meditations, Milk, Photography
Scenes from La France Profonde
Categories: Agriculture, Cattle, France, French Cooking, Mushrooms, Photography • Tags: Cattle, En plein air, Food Photography, France, French cuisine, Mushrooms, Restaurants
Lavender Fields Forever
No smell of cow patties flitted through the air, thank goodness. After all, just before lunch who wants to contemplate biting into a sandwich perfumed with the stench of manure? We stood on the knoll about the Maison Beliveau and watched the black-furred cattle, including two hefty bulls, running down the hill, hell-bent on cozying up to some people foolish enough to walk into the pasture. The animals no doubt hoped for a morsel of food other than the grass […]
Categories: Cattle, Cookbooks, Cooking, Gardens, Herbs • Tags: Gardens, Herbs, Lavender, Madame de Sévigné
Cheesemaking in Africa: “Curd and the Karamojong”
Englishwoman Kate Arding, who owns a cheese shop — Cowgirl Creamery — in West Marin, California, traveled to Uganda in December 2007. While there, she taught the Karamojong people how to make cheese. A pictorial essay— “Curd and the Karamojong” — appeared in the autumn issue of a new magazine devoted completely to cheese, Culture: The Word on Cheese. For more on cheesemaking in Africa, see Charles O’Connor’s Traditional Cheesemaking Manual, published by the International Livestock Centre for Africa in […]
Categories: Africa, Cattle, Uganda • Tags: Cheesemaking, Karamojong people, Uganda
The Cattle are Lowing
Well, the cattle are lowing.** I am just about moved to my temporary abode, 13 acres on a farm that’s clearly been sold off in pieces. A herd of about 25 Black Angus station themselves on a knoll outside my bedroom window. Wonder if the lowing will keep me awake? And three guinea hens stopped me in my little red car today — I couldn’t tell what they were from a distance, but I knew as I approach them that, […]
Categories: Agriculture, Cattle • Tags: Black Angus, Cattle, Rural Living
