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Field notes / 04 / Food preparation
Before the meal, a process.
Ingredients, preparation and the gaps a photograph cannot fill.
Keep the description concrete
Preparation is part of the record.
A food note can start before a meal: ingredients on a work surface, the order of preparation, what was already made. This is a way to describe a process, not a meal plan or a technique tutorial.
Describe / ingredients in view
What is known?
What is assumed?
A photograph may show an ingredient without establishing its origin, quantity, nutritional value or suitability for a person. Keep those fields blank if they are not known.
An example, not a universal plan
Three containers. Still one photograph.
The arrangement gives us a visual record, not portions, nutrient values or storage guidance. A comparison would need information beyond the image.
- Which ingredients were documented?
- Were amounts actually recorded?
- What is outside the frame?
