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Mornings in Savannah (baked eggs and blue crab)

Blue crabs harvested from a single trap tied off a backyard dock –just fifty paces from the chicken coop.

chicken keeping then and now

In the olden days you’d throw down some scratch, call it a day and that was “keeping chickens.” Oh, and you had a stone-sharpened hatchet by the kitchen door and an old tree stump in the yard.

These days, a defining accessory – “good riddance” infinity pools, fasts cars and cute babies in aerospace industry engineered strollers – chickens both domestic and imported live at the level to which their owners are accustomed.

pie palmistry

Text and Artwork by katherine sandoz Ask anybody who knows anything about pies and pie-making and invariably, each one characterizes the knack with this summary, “It’s in the hands.” What […]