Sometimes you come to festivals (or, in Italy, Sagre) to celebrate and eat real, traditional food. Then again, at what point is the photographer involved in the documentation of fading traditions, becoming a sort of visual anthropologist?

Here the dough for the Torta di Verdure has been made, and the paddle lined with chestnut leaves. Chestnuts are a celebrated food item in the Lunigiana, a poorer corner of Tuscany. Click next to follow the process of making Torta di Verdure the old way.