Food art at my local grocery store. They were giving samples of tangerines . . .
and they are delicious!
Posts Tagged ‘food art’
What personality test am I taking?
January 13, 2014
This is a personality test from TIME magazine and purports to predict your politics from your answers to a few simple questions. I was guided to this test by Buck and am shamelessly stealing it.
Take the test yourself and see how accurate it is.
But if that is not working for you, go over to BuzzFeed and check your cheese horoscope.
As a Libra, I am . . . “skilled in the art of relaxation and taking a time-out when you need to; friends are totes jealous of your laid-back ‘tude. You enjoy the challenge of making delicious and inventive dishes, and take much pleasure in the small things in life, like enjoying a meal with friends. Go for something involving a little effort: Savor the experience of making a cheese like raclette as a fondue or melted with your favorite ingredients.”
What am I celebrating?
December 23, 2013
On December 23, the Night of the Radishes is celebrated in Oaxaca. These impressive root vegetables are left in the ground past their normal harvesting time allowing them to assume fantastic sizes and shapes. Thought to have originated in 1897 as a strategy by market stand owners to lure worshipers to shop on their way home from church, Oaxacans since that time have been carving radishes into sculptures that are sometimes realistic and sometimes fanciful.
Often the sculptures depict a nativity scene.
But not always.
The festival does not end on December 23, but continues through the Christmas holidays in a curious blending of a harvest festival and religious observance.
To learn 10 facts about radishes, here is an article from the Daily Express.
What is tattoo Tuesday about?
October 29, 2013B A C O N
This helpful guide to social media is by the artist Corey Smith, and is from this book:
Which I LOVE. I bought my copy at Literati Books in Ann Arbor, probably also available you-know-where.
And the tattoos:
This one is so goofy, I love it:
Whose birthday is it today?
October 3, 2013Whose birthday? It is mine.
When I was growing up, birthdays always meant a cake from Hough Bakery. For my brother, born in March, the cake was covered in spring flowers. For my sister’s June birthday, frosting roses decorated the cake. I think I really got the best deal because for my October birthday, my mom would get a cake with the entire top covered in frosting mums in autumn colors. I cannot describe how beautiful it was – and how delicious.
Hough closed their retail stores in 1992. You can tell a native Clevelander by the dreamy, far away look in their eyes when you mention the name Hough Bakery. They will sigh, “Oh, yes, I remember the . . . “(filling in the blank – birthday cakes, corn toasties, brownies, blondies, hot cross buns, daffodil cakes, Hungarian delights, etc., etc., with whatever was their favorite.
If you did not grow up on bakery from Hough’s, the names will mean nothing to you. But to a native Clevelander, Hough’s was more than just a bakery, it was part of our history.
The daffodil cakes and so forth may be gone, but you can still get a Hough-style birthday cake at Archie’s Bakery. Archie was a baker for Hough’s and he negotiated with the family to continue baking and selling their distinctive birthday cakes.
I’ll get mine.
What am I celebrating today?
April 22, 2013
Today is National Jelly Bean Day.
The pictures above are jelly bean art. These creations are an interesting take on the ancient art of mosaics. My research indicates that jelly beans themselves may have an ancient history, having evolved from Turkish delight candy – fruit jells coated with powdered sugar. Advances in manufacturing methods in the late 19th and early 20th centuries enabled candy makers to add a hard sugar shell to soft jell centers and modern jelly beans were created.
Click here for the Mommy Files compilation of the best and worst Jelly Belly flavors.
What am I eating, er, reading?
March 9, 2013
I blogged about colors earlier this month and then came across this delightful post on Hovercraft Doggy. Read the rest of the post here. It has bacon.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 