Idylls of Cuisine, #80
September 19, 2010
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Category: Paintings
Curl Up with a Nice Food Blog …
July 21, 2010
The creativity, wit, and wisdom of food bloggers never ceases to amaze me. And so today, I simply must let you know about some new, to me anyway, blogs (and bloggers) that I’ve run across lately. Here are two that provide gorgeous pictures, along with commentary and a bit of food history: “An English Kitchen,” … More Curl Up with a Nice Food Blog …
Idylls of Cuisine, #65
June 6, 2010
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Of Herbs and Other Country Messes
May 11, 2010
When the sage comes to life again, after its long, lonely slumber in the freezing winter, I always just stop for a moment and marvel. How could this happen? Left outside the kitchen door, the sage bows before the relentless blasts of icy winds and heavy snow. Its leaves and branches shrivel to skeletal silhouettes, … More Of Herbs and Other Country Messes
Pass the Nostalgia, and Nix the Organics
April 14, 2010
I’ll be blunt: I like my food with a heaping handful of nostalgic romanticism. Yes, there are those who claim that the present food landscape sparkles with the dreamy hue reminiscent of rose-colored glasses, that the perfume of nostalgia permeates too much of present-day “discourse” on food. And then there’s the flip side of that … More Pass the Nostalgia, and Nix the Organics
Idylls of Cuisine, #51
February 21, 2010
[A picture, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
The Art of Ash Wednesday: Omnia vanitas
February 17, 2010
Ash Wednesday, not a day for feasting, but rather for fasting and contemplating the fleetingness of life and all its pleasures. In the seventeenth-century Netherlands, a remarkable style of painting arose, still-life, the most intriguing in some ways being that of the vanitas still-life. Usually artists portrayed a skull surrounded by the gifts (as they … More The Art of Ash Wednesday: Omnia vanitas
CYNTHIA D. BERTELSEN 
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