foodpics

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.

A loaded cargo bike parked in front of a vegetable stand. The greens of a bundle of large long onions projects from the rear of the cargo bike’s saddle bags like a short horse’s tail.

A closer view of the cargo bike parked in front of a vegetable stand.

A restaurant meal of mabo-dofu, gyoza, white rice, salt pickles, and egg soup.

Two wrapped pieces of chocolate beside a Meiji Black Chocolate box, one piece with a dent in its center.