Text and Artwork by katherine sandoz
A woman named Steele taught me that artichokes should be used as divining tools. She postulated that you could discern someone’s mettle by observing their eating the densely armored delicacy. So she served them and often.
If the visitor proved unadventurous, clumsy or uninventive in luxuriating in the fullness of the experience, well…never again to be invited into the fold!
And that is the hard science of food, flowers and folklore.
(“artichoke flower”, 10.25″ x 6.25″, water-based media on panel, 2012)
original Salted & Styled artwork available here
