Meeting Calamary

Kitty meeting calamary. Photo by Mare Sabolotny, Kirepi village 18 April 2014

Fishing

Fishing is rapidly getting hip! Forget about planking, selfies and digital shit and grab a fishing rod!

Photos by Vahur Afanasjev, 30 March 2014 in Tartu by the river Emajõgi. Oh and btw there's a pile of snow across the river - will take a month to melt it.

Restaurant for Animals

During winter, wild animals may end up starving. There's some stuff around, like treebark, frozen grass under the snow. Wild boars dig up leftover potatoes from fields, deer and rabbits come near houses and munch on young trees that people have planted a year before... But near the spring it's pretty hard as most of the resources are exhausted. Predators (wolves, foxes, lynx) are hungry, too, unless sleeping as bears do.

That is why humans, mostly represented by the hunting club members, serve the forest dwellers the high cuisine of potatoes, perfectly dryed hay and selected branches from young apple trees. Special animal feeding "restaurants" are built.

The whole are of Kääpa (Välgi) nature reserve is 2039,8ha of land plus 256,4ha of water. By the way, in spring, parts of the reserve are off limits for the man kind (besides authorised personnel) as the local wild bunch is making babies.

Photos by Vahur Afanasjev 7 March 2014, Välgi nature reservoir.

Independence Day

Cheers for the Estonian Independence Day! (Starring: spicy sprats on rye bread, filled eggs with egg-spratpiss (salty brine) filling, pickles with chillies (pickled by my mother), Moe vodka (from ecologically clean Estonian grain only), fresh tap water (the purest in Estonia) and, as a decoration, some snowdrops (galanthus) I picked in from of my country house earlier today).

Photo and food by Vahur Afanasjev, 24 February, Tartu.

How to Eat a Cucumber?

Thank You for Asking! Photo by Aapo Ilves, 03. 08. 2013 in Luhamaa, Setomaa, South-Estonia.

Fish dries. Ethnic pattern.

Fish dries. Ethnic pattern. Dried fish called VOBLA. Photo by Aapo Ilves, 05.05.2013 in Räpina, South Estonia.

Armenian speciality

Photo by Vahur Afanasjev. 22.10.11. Armenia

Cranberry Burka Jar Attack

Inshallah. Jam by Mare Sabolotny, photo by Vahur Afanasjev, Tallinn, September 2011

So Long, Spiderman

Estonians eat anything that comes by.
Photo by Mare Sabolotny, Cambodia, January 2010