Anti-tweezers / pro-food
All the adulation goes to 6-hour $800 tasting menus prepared by tweezer-wielding diva-CHEFs. But here’s to the cooks who feed us with, you know, food. And seem to find joy in their work.
This project is for “opposables” (that’s kind of the eponymous point) and I usually have a wealth of options, but after searching through thousands of images and my flickering memory banks, it seems I’ve never actually encountered one of the tweezer-wielders, except on TV. So instead, here are two more cooks.
Top: NYC food courts. Below: Montpelier street fare and French eel festival.
Love this one. Totally in line with my passion photo project— Eating Alone. @eatingalonepix
While in grad school I worked at the New Bedford, MA Health Dep't as a sanitarian and restaurant inspector, enforcing health and safety regulations. It was perfectly permissible for cooks to touch the food with their bare hands, so long as they followed reasonable washing and sanitary procedures. There was no requirement to use tweezers.