Thanks for two photos

I want to thank Amy Albert for the wonderful new photo of me to the left of this entry. I was ladling out Posole the evening before Thanksgiving. Posole, a southwestern soup made with pork and hominy, couldn't be more different from the feast that awaited us the next day. And it was perfect.

I also want to thank Lot Schurin whose photo of the old house in Vietnam I used below. I found it on the web and thought that it was the right image, imagining as I did the cooking that was going on in that house as she took the photo and the smells that might have been coming from the pot on the fire.