foodpics

A bright yellow vending machine for drinks, with a bicycle loaded with blue panniers in front, and a row of water bottles set out beside the bike and in front of the machine.

A lunch plate with: a salad of grilled tofu, sprouts and shimeji mushrooms; braised pumpkin squash rolled in sesame; fried vegetables; apple slices; pickled myōga; pickled lotus root, carrot, and cucumber salad; and chicken tatsuta-age with miso soup and hot coffee

A blurry photograph of the cover of a restaurant menu reading (in English translation) “Restaurant for Miso Cutlet Deep-fried in 100% Lard” and listing opening days and times with the phone number of the shop

A set lunch of miso cutlet and side dishes

A plastic container filled with homemade potato salad, resting on a Shinkansen fold-down tray.

Coffee in a hand-thrown earthenware coffee cup sits on a wooden counter before a window opening onto a winter scene, and expands of dried grass on the bank of a broad river in the middle distance

Top view of two trays, each arrayed with ten small dishes comprising a Japanese breakfast of grilled salmon, salt pickles, tofu, and other delicacies. The hands of the person sitting opposite are in frame, shifting a serving bowl of rice to the side.

A wooden bench wet from rain stands in forestland, at the edge of a flat area covered in small shards of terracotta. Four pannier bags are lying on or against the bench, with some of the contents removed, including a cup, a small square cooking pot, and a water bottle. In for foreground on the flat area a small gasoline stove stands on a tiny plastic stool, heading a Bialetti coffee maker.

A two-tiered water cascade in forestland. to the right, a pot of oatmeal (the breakfast of the man behind the camera) is visible.

A small jar of sweet-and-sour carrot and radish salad, a small jar sweet black beans, a coffee cup and small plate of soy sauce on a plastic cutting board, resting on the ground. Beyond the cutting board a pot of water is boiling on a small gasoline camp stove.