source: Feltham’s farm
It was a craft that intimately engaged people with their food. It was a craft with skill, time, intention, and heavy direct physical effort. Here in the basement, hard up against me, is this old cheese press, memory from another time. At a time of equity: this wooden object reminds me of homesteading: I have lost little faith that my cupboards have some potential for self-sufficiency and culinary imagination, I still catch a whiff of the aroma of cheese making wandering around the house. This wooden relic is a testament to the past.
source: reddit
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