Stone Soup

[Mistwalker]

A chapter I have been working on recently is loosely based on the "Stone Soup" fable. Because the events that took place at the time were directly inspired by it. As a research tool, as a memory and writing aid, I put together a series of photos as a desk top slide show. It was shot using the same sorts of foods I had to work with back then, and shot with the same knife from the time period. It's a way of remembering what all was going on in the room around me at the time, the conversations that were happening, and what had been going on at the time in general and in the general area.

In looking at that series of photos i decided to do a more artistic version of it using a Fiddleback Forge knife. Partly because those days are in many ways responsible for these days for me, and the two are intertwined. But also because i decided to do a recipe for one veersion of our Stone Soup on the FF website blog, and I knew I would need the photos for the illustrations. Not any text to go with these shots this time, I'll do that on the blog, this is just the imagery

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[SA Condor]

Is this anything like yours? This is a traditional Bolivian soup found high in the Andes mountains. This particular restaurant sits at around 13,500 feet ASL.

 

[Singlefintj]

Now I want soup! Looks great man, love that knife as well.

 

[Mistwalker]

Is this anything like yours? This is a traditional Bolivian soup found high in the Andes mountains. This particular restaurant sits at around 13,500 feet ASL.

No, it's more in the line of Marcia Brown's version of the fable from 1948, but now I want some of that corn soup!!

Now I want soup! Looks great man, love that knife as well.

Thanks man, I've been making soups of all sorts for almost 40 years The knife, a Rapscallion, is gorgeous. I hope Andy makes a few more of them. This one is just on loan to me, and I need one of my own

 

[SA Condor]

No, it's more in the line of Marcia Brown's version of the fable from 1948, but now I want some of that corn soup!!

Cool, I’ll have to check that out. I too have been making soups a long time now, about 26 years. There’s just something about a nice hearty soup!

Come on down to Bolivia and I’ll take you to that restaurant, it was a delicious bowl of soup.

 

[lmalterna]

That is some fine Stone Soup! Dad told a story once of gatherings where each person that came threw something in the pot. They had to ban one guy because he brought squirrel heads!
Bill

 

[Charlie Maclan]

There's a lotta love in your cooking, Mistwalker... Wonderful soup!

 

[Mistwalker]

There's a lotta love in your cooking, Mistwalker... Wonderful soup!

Thank you Charlie, glad you liked it

 

[Mistwalker]

That is some fine Stone Soup! Dad told a story once of gatherings where each person that came threw something in the pot. They had to ban one guy because he brought squirrel heads!
Bill

Yeah, I heard some similar stories from my dad and his friends from the 40s. I learned from him there that some ground rules have to be laid early on lol. Though I once knew an old woman who loved roasted squirrel brains...

 

[Fiddleback]

That made me hungry. Your pics get better and better.