The tone of a restaurant is set at the top, and in this one the formal, old-fashioned way of tending to a table is softened by a warmth that feels genuine and a pride in doing things properly that can never be faked.
All of the images feel fresh and exuberant, and most feature people, whether preparing a meal, setting a table, or tending a garden.
He spoke of his time in the Vietnam War — he served in the Navy from 1970 to 1973 aboard the aircraft carrier Ranger — and how as a street vendor he tended to a table near the World Trade Center during both the bombing in 1993 and the terrorist attack in 2001.
In Flushing, Queens, which has perhaps the largest Falun Gong following in the United States, members say their adversaries are a handful of spirited Chinese immigrants who tend a small folding table set up every day in front of a Chinese restaurant on a stretch of Main Street that is bustling with Chinese immigrants.
For this step in particular I tend to use a table listing a large number of general personality traits.
Tending the table of hands-on demonstrations were research scientist Ted Golfinopoulos, graduate student Lucio Milanese, Nuclear Science and Engineering administrator Valerie Censabella and outreach coordinator Paul Rivenberg.
A young woman engulfed in billowing red-and-white fabric tends to flowers on a table in the foreground as an older woman looks on over her shoulder.
"They like it with organs because it's juicier that way," said Yana Borodina, 23, who tended one table.
A few blocks away Gloria Elisabeth Mancia, 62, sat underneath a tent and tended to her table where she sells mangoes, red beans and tamales.
(Well, almost all: unopened copies of the weekly Manchester Guardian, in their yellowish wrappers, tended to pile up under a table in the living room and would only later be taken out, ripped open, and absorbed over a giant weekend cram course).
This is the charity that draws in the devoted, tending their bird tables across the country, and proud parents sending their children out on ornithological field trips.
