An Hour At An Inn

[Mistwalker]

I have been working on a few photo-literary projects simultaneously lately, with food being a common theme through most of it. This is a series of shots from a dinner I made based on the menu that Frodo, Sam, Merri, and Pippin dined on at the Pony.

"In a twinkling the table was laid.

There was hot soup,

Cold meats,

A Blackberry tart

New loaves and slabs of butter

And half a ripe cheese

Alayna got a kick out of our dinner at the inn

Yeah...I know it's not blackberry...but that is in the works

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[lmalterna]

Bryan,
I have been in some "Inns" that charged by the hour but none of them served such fine meals! I am hungry now.
Bill

 

[Pàdruig]

I am discovering that your food compositions are particularly stellar. A treat for the eyes and the salivary glands...

 

[Warrior108]

I think you should go on tour!

 

[Mistwalker]

Bryan,
I have been in some "Inns" that charged by the hour but none of them served such fine meals! I am hungry now.
Bill

LOLOL Thanks Bill!

I am discovering that your food compositions are particularly stellar. A treat for the eyes and the salivary glands...

Thank you, I am working on multiple writing projects at once. One of them has a section about cooking and recipes in it, one is on a section of my own life from my youth where the food and cooking played a critical role in my survival, and one is an actual cook book of a different sort. So being a very visual person I have been using images from my Tolkienesque project, and even creating some others as albums for desktop slide shows to help me remember details from a time period which I spent a lot of time trying to forget. When I get the imagery and scents right, it triggers memories of other things that were going on in the room around me at the time, or had happened in that same time period. Some of the other scenes I have shot, like this scene inspired by thoughts of Bilbo's wandering to the east, help also because of all the time that was spent living by candle light and studying maps to make a plan for the following day(s) of gathering supplies or relocating.

I think you should go on tour!

LOLOL, I may be too old for such things, but hopefully the books, some of which will have several pictures, will get around

 

[Mistwalker]

I'd sort of like to own an Inn. One that serves good meals but doesn't have an hourly rate

 

[Halfneck]

Hey Mistwalker what FB knife is that on the cold meats?

Great pics and you need to see if Andy can source some Mithril.

 

[Nbrackett]

Hey Mistwalker what FB knife is that on the cold meats?

That would be a Rapscallion w/ spalted maple.

 

[Mistwalker]

Hey Mistwalker what FB knife is that on the cold meats?

Great pics and you need to see if Andy can source some Mithril.

As Nathan said it's a Rapscallion with gorgeous spalted maple. It's one of the models in the line up I really like, but there aren't many of them. I like it because it reminds me of a butcher knife with a lot of attitude, and it reminds me of a combination of two models knives i used a lot in the field in my youth. So since I have been working on a few different projects, one of which is a picture book on Fiddleback Forge. That book will feature all of the different real world uses that Andy has designed his knives for, from bushcraft and camping, to EDC and utility, and yes there is definitely going to be a section on cooking. I felt the Rapscallion was a natural for photos in that section. I am also working on an actual cook book and like the idea of featuring this particular rapscallion in it. It is gorgeous. I also used it to make that pot of "hot soup", and there is a post coming from that as well, with more and better photos of this knife in it.

 

[Pàdruig]

Thank you, I am working on multiple writing projects at once. One of them has a section about cooking and recipes in it, one is on a section of my own life from my youth where the food and cooking played a critical role in my survival, and one is an actual cook book of a different sort. So being a very visual person I have been using images from my Tolkienesque project, and even creating some others as albums for desktop slide shows to help me remember details from a time period which I spent a lot of time trying to forget. When I get the imagery and scents right, it triggers memories of other things that were going on in the room around me at the time, or had happened in that same time period. Some of the other scenes I have shot, like this scene inspired by thoughts of Bilbo's wandering to the east, help also because of all the time that was spent living by candle light and studying maps to make a plan for the following day(s) of gathering supplies or relocating.

You have me enormously intrigued. Do you have your works published?

 

[Mistwalker]

You have me enormously intrigued. Do you have your works published?

I've only been published in one actual book. I wrote much of the fire lighting section and some of the sheltering section...maybe parts in other sections, some years back.

https://www.amazon.com/Prepare-Emer...d=1513705400&sr=8-2&keywords=ludlow+survivors

But I have been published quite a bit in various magazines over the last decade; Tactical Knives, Tactical Weapons, Survival Quarterly, Self Reliance Illustrated, American Survival Guide, Survivor's Edge, Recoil, I even did one piece for Soldier of Fortune just so I could say I had since I used to read that magazine back in the late 70s in middle and high school. So now that I have bee hanging out with some of my editors for the last decade or so, and they have heard bits and pieces of the stories behind how and why I know the things I know, they and several friends have suggested that I put it in book form. So I have been working on that for the last few months.