While Pontormo’s notes on his everyday diet is a modest and revealing account of the solitary life of an old but determined artist, a little earlier in 1512, twelve of Florence’s most famous artists and poets had formed a sort of Renaissance supper club. Known as La Compagnia del Paiuolo, members were to contribute creative, aesthetically pleasing dinners for each other, one more inventive than the next. The duplicating of ideas was strictly punished. Their motto in fact was l’arte si fa a cena – art is made at dinner. Sometimes this included the actual setting of the supper, not just the meal itself. For example, the architect and sculptor Gianfrancesco Rustici once invited his guests to eat in what seemed to be a giant, steaming trompe l’oeil tub (a reference to the paiuolo, of the club’s name, a large copper pot for cooking over a fire) where everyone’s dishes were held up on the boughs of a moving tree.
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Villalobos Market Mural
Villalobos Market Mural
Villalobos Market Mural
Villalobos Market Mural
Vince's Market Mural
Vince's Market Mural
Vince's Market MuralMarket Murals: Villalobos Market in Hollywood & Vince’s Market in Atwater Village, LA
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Culinary Renaissance:
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Mexican Artist’s Cookbook:
Frida’s Fiestas: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo
Frida’s Fiestas is a personal account in words and pictures of many important and happy events in the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and a scrapbook, assembled by her stepdaughter, of recipes for more than 100 dishes that Frida served to family and friends…
Some Notable Inclusions:
- Oyster Soup
- Black Mole from Oaxaca (Mole Negro Oaxaqueño)
- Red Hominy Stew From Jalisco (Pozole Rojo)
- Chiles in Walnut Sauce (Chiles en Nogada)
- Jocoque Torte in Broth (Jocoque is a kind of buttermilk)
- Pork Stewed in Pulque (A particular agave liquor)
- Chicken in Pipián Sauce
- Cream of Peanut Soup
- Stuffed Pambazos (A kind of white bread made with eggs)
- Revoltijo (a mixed dish made with greens called romeritos)
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Be Still Life My Quick Heart:
Cressida Campbell Kitchen Utensils
Still Life with Crabs and Bottle Paul Lazerges
Jason de Graaf A Binary Set
Pulp Fiction II David Edwards
William Baptiste Baird Spring Chickens
A Leg of Mutton Unknown (French)
George Brookshaw Apples
The Artist’s Kitchen, Paris Alson Skinner Clark -
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Kiyo Photography
Favorites from Kyoto Photographer Kiyo:
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Food Art:
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Links:
Cactus, Fruit, Jelly, Donuts w/ Tea:
The Native American Recipes Blog
La Tavola - A Print-On-Demand Italian Cookbook
Venetia In Kyoto: Enjoying Slow Herbal Tea (Video)
煉瓦窯で焼かれたパン - Brick Oven Baked Bread
Kenny Scharf’s Donut Paintings
Strawberries from Ottesen & Garduno’s Cacao
Cenci: Rags for Carnival -
Links:
Today’s Ligi:
Esperanto is the most widely spoken international auxiliary language…
Pan-fried Tet Sticky Rice Cake Recipe (Banh Chung Chien)
Slow Cooker Oatmeal
Davanagere Benne Dosa (from the city in the Indian state of Karnataka)
Branzino al sale
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Monet’s Table:
The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet…
A moody, reserved, and very private man whose daily routine revolved totally around his painting, Monet nevertheless enjoyed entertaining his friends, many of whom were leading figures of the time. As well as his fellow Impressionists — in particular Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas and Cézanne — other regular guests included Rodin, Whistler, Maupassant, Valéry, and one of Monet’s closest friends, the statesman Clemenceau.
They came to dine in almost ritual form, first visiting Monet’s studio and the greenhouses, then having lunch at 11:30 (the time the family always dined, to enable Monet to make the most of the afternoon light). Tea would later be served under the lime trees or near the pond. Guests were never invited to dinner; because Monet went to bed very early in order to rise at dawn. All the guests were familiar with Monet’s rigid timetable.
The recipes collected in his cooking journals include dishes Monet had encountered in his travels or had come across in restaurants he frequented in Paris as well as recipes from friends, such as Cézanne’s bouillabaisse and Millet’s petits pains.(Source: gherkinstomatoes.com)
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Food Related Art from Google Art Project
A Collection of Food Related Art from The Google Art Project:
- The Glass of Wine, Jan Vermeer van Delft
- The Bottle of Anís del Mono, Juan Gris
- Coffee Grinder, Juan Gris
- Chow time on Madrid Front, Unknown
- Piazza Navona, Rome, Caspar Adriaansz. van Wittel (Vanvitelli)
- Still Life with Turkey Pie, Pieter Claesz
- Still Life with Poultry, Willem van Aelst
- Still Life with Apples, Paul Cézanne
- The Harvesters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- A veranda overgrown with grape vines, Silvestr Shchedrin
- Fishes, wine, fruit, Konstantin Korovin
- Rye, Ivan Shishkin
- Café table with absinth, Vincent van Gogh
- Farmhouse in a wheat field, Vincent van Gogh
- Montmartre: mills and vegetable gardens, Vincent van Gogh
- Quinces, lemons, pears and grapes, Vincent van Gogh
- Sunflowers, Vincent van Gogh
- The white orchard, Vincent van Gogh
