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I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania some time of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight:
And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.

— Shakespeare, Midsummer Night’s Dream

Making wild violet scented sugar, for sweets with the scent of spring!

Source: https://www.facebook.com/LA-CAMPAGNA-APPENA-IERI-293715641813/

Cabbage roses…. Edible petals!

art-history:

John James Audubon
American, born Haiti 1785-1851
Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), Havell pl. 26, c. 1825
Watercolor, graphite, pastel, gouache, and black ink with scraping and selective glazing on paper, laid on card
29¾ x 21¼ in. (75.6 x 54 cm)
New-York Historical Society
New York, New York, USA

Not planning to cook and eat budgies and parrots, promise!

(Source: nyhistory.org)

art-history:

Kehinde Wiley
American, born 1977
Two Sisters, 2012
Oil on linen
96 x 72 in.
Kehinde Wiley is an acclaimed contemporary painter who is widely recognized for his portraits referencing the art of the Old Masters. (The painting above is one such example, based on Les deux sœurs by French Romantic painter Théodore Chassériau.) His portraits elevate contemporary African-American subjects – frequently wearing sneakers, sweatpants, and other articles of clothing associated with hip-hop culture – to the status of European noblemen, aristocrats, and heroes, thereby drawing attention to the lack of Black figures in the art historical canon. Wiley selects his subjects by “street casting” – inviting people off the street to pose for his portraits, and allowing them to select from a book which painting they would like to recreate.
The artist has a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and graduated with an MFA from Yale’s School of Art in 2001. His work has been featured in over 20 exhibitions in the United States and Europe since 2006.

(Source: brooklynmuseum.org)

indigodreams:

Daniel Craig

(Source: ba-reps.com, via indigodreams)

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Palazzo Isolani, Bologna. Photo for the homepage of my #new #website! (at Bologna Centro)

Now I offer cooking classes in Bologna.

website new Bologna Italy italian food

designfordisorder:

BOTANICAL PRINT HOUTTE 8x10 Art Print 152 Beautiful Burgundy Cabbage Rose Rosebud Blooming Flowers Spring Summer Garden Antique French

marmitelover:

Cabbage rose, stuffed with kasha ( buckwheat) & vegetables then baked in the oven, from my book #visforvegan which I’m going to promote in #newyork next week with a #vegan #supperclub @ the house of @kasekaiserina #food #usa #cooking #foodphotography #foodstyling (at Msmarmitelover)

Looks stunning!

(Source: msmarmitelover)

Let a cabbage soup be entirely cabbage… and may what I say about soup be a law applied to everything that is eaten.“
Nicholas de Bonnefons
‘Les Delices de la Campagne’ (1654)

“Technically, these are not still life paintings, because they retain important figurative elements, but the foodstuffs dominate, making them important precursors. The greatest of these painters is perhaps Joachim Beuckelaer, who painted sturdy market women with rolled sleeves, stationed proudly aside mountains of cabbages.”

Source: http://www.artbouillon.com/2013/12/flemish-food-art-appreciation.html