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This week's prompt is "artisan." Thanks to Joe for the prompt idea.
You're encouraged to describe your photo--where you shot it, details of what you were doing or what was going on, etc.
Artisan: from Italian: artigiano A skilled manual worker who crafts items that may be functional or strictly decorative, including furniture, clothing, jewelry, household items, and tools. The term can also refer to the craft of hand making food products, such as bread, beverages and cheese. ~ Wikipedia
Here is my photo of handmade pumpkin amaretto pasta, made with loving care by the hands of the pasta maker in Le Spighe, via Garibaldi, 1341 in Venice. Delicious!
"Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0." ~ Sophia Bush Brenda
Stealing from Brenda's pasta photo (which is gorgeous by the way), here are 2 artisans making stuffed tortellini. They make most of all the pasta sold at Bruno e Franco Piazza S. Simone, 2 Bologna. This was an extra bonus for Colleen and I on our Food Lover's Tour of Emilia Romagna!
Virtually every man in my village thinks of himself as skilled craftsmen, an artisan of one trade or another. A good number claim several areas of expertise. So when a task needs to be done, such as changing a bolt (bullone) on a door, you can be sure each maestro will soon appear and make themselves available in completing the task at hand. In the illustration 10 paesani work together cooperatively in this dangerous and complicated endeavor. Since pranzo was approaching, each soon returned home to his family with an epic tale of his achievements.
I almost posted that picture Mindy-great shot! Instead here is a picture of a famous marzipan baker (not that I can remember her name or name of her shop ) in Eurice, Sicily in 2006.
This cobbler in Olymbos, the small mountain village above Diafani on the Greek island of Karpathos, was renowned for the beautiful boots he made. Supple leather boots, I think made of goat skins, have been worn by both men and women here for centuries, to protect them from snakes as they tend their goats and steep rocky farms.
This woman was working on her embroidery at the back of a nearly-empty restaurant on the outskirts of the Old Town in Rhodes. We talked a little and she told me that she was from Karpathos (one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece), and that in a few days they would be having the annual feast of the Blessing of Bread in her home town.
Since I had heard haunting Karpathian music in Athens and seen pictures of Olymbos, I had been sorely tempted to try to get there although my vacation was dwindling fast. With her encouragement I took the ferry to Diafani the next day, and how glad I was!
Stone masons in the village of Sainte Enimie in the Gorges du Tarn, France. There must be lots of stone masons in the region because most every builing is made of the native stone.
) in Eurice, Sicily in 2006.
