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		<title>A Bare Table is Like an Artist’s Canvas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bertelsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s something about tables, big, little, or bare – and those bare ones &#160;in particular &#8211; that make me want to festoon them with food I’ve cooked, like floral garlands at a grand wedding. I feel an urge, too, to seat people on the equally vacant chairs, saying, “Come on now, sit down a spell, and let your worries fade away like the mist on a hot summer morning.” Well, maybe I wouldn’t say it exactly that way, but the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gherkinstomatoes.com&#038;blog=4369594&#038;post=29456&#038;subd=cbertel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Stew&#8217;s so comforting on a rainy day.” *</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 13:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bertelsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so are flowers. *Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948) © 2013 C. Bertelsen Filed under: Agriculture, Photography, Poetry Tagged: Flowers, Photography, Rain<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gherkinstomatoes.com&#038;blog=4369594&#038;post=29446&#038;subd=cbertel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singkong, Manioc, Mandioca, Mandió, Tapioca, Yuca:  Singing the Praises of Manihot esculenta (Cassava)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 17:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bertelsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Chipa, chipa!” yelled the little Paraguyan girl – all of maybe 8 years old, thrusting a large flat basket draped with a smudged white cloth against the open window of the bus. I smelled the warm cassava bread even before she flicked off the cloth with a flourish, much as a magician reveals the white rabbit cowering under his top hat. I pointed to the bread closest to me and she held out her hand. Payment first, then food. I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gherkinstomatoes.com&#038;blog=4369594&#038;post=29381&#038;subd=cbertel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Promise of Apple Blossoms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 19:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bertelsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring, when she sashays in, always takes my breath away. Such vivid raiments cover her, so radiant that Joseph with his coat of many colors could only turn green with envy. The eye hardly knows where to light, much as a honey bee &#8211; turned loose in a field of daisies &#8211; darts from one nectar-filled delight to another, drunk on the experience. Apple trees always draw me close. I suppose it has to do with the apple tree that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gherkinstomatoes.com&#038;blog=4369594&#038;post=29354&#038;subd=cbertel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Pictorial Paean to Farming and Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 14:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Bertelsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[© 2013 C. Bertelsen. No copying of photographs without my permission. Filed under: Agriculture, Cattle, Local foods, Photography, Sheep Tagged: Artist statement, Cattle, Farming, Food, Injera, Photography, Sheep<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gherkinstomatoes.com&#038;blog=4369594&#038;post=29324&#038;subd=cbertel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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