The Art Institute Chicago tells us that this painting is from a much larger portrait of a family that Manet decided to cut into sections. La Régalade means “to pour liquid from a bottle down the throat without touching the…
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Strawberries, Nuts, &c. – A Poem
Riddle Me This How is it possible –Orange, so fresh the leaf is intactRuby-red strawberries that if wild would collapseTogether with nuts and raisins, to beIn the same still life in a nineteenth centuryComposition? What, summer and winter?Unless, if not…
Sprinkle and Drizzle Meditation
I’ve been posting these videos for several months over on Bluesky for a bit of fun. For technical reasons, I decided the best way to compile and share is through YouTube. I’m slowly building up the library on YouTube (slowly…
Merchant’s Wife and Chocolate – A Poem
In The Merchant’s Wife poem, I continue my poeticised response to “food-related” art, specifically in this painting as to what they may be having for breakfast or morning tea. If you’d like a close-up of the painting, click on “source”…
Still Life with Ham – A Poem
I love the challenge of ekphrastic poetry, responding to works of art with words. This is the start of a series of poetry posts, some more serious than others, in which I engage on food-related themes. I ensure all the…
Honeycomb & Fudge Vanilla Ice Cream Cake
Well, the internet hole I fell down this time was trying to find a worldwide term for honeycomb (honeycomb candy, hokey pokey, cinder toffee, sponge candy … sea foam?) Hey, I said, honeycomb – not honey! And what everyone in…
The Sweet Potato Salad Spot
Hands up who knew that the sweet potato was cultivated before the white potato? That Columbus pretty much introduced them to Europe? That sweet potato was considered an aphrodisiac, hence why extremely popular with serial philanderer Henry VIII?? Well, I…
Celebrating Citrus Haiku in the 1600s
Food and poetry go together. Like emotion and metaphor. Like appetisers and champagne. Like boogity-boogity-boogity-shooby-shoowop-shabop (name that tune!). I so much enjoyed celebrating melons in the 1600s, I’m doing it again, celebrating citrus haiku with Japanese poet, Basho. lemon flowersrecalling…
Rustic Apple Crumble
I’m calling this apple crumble “rustic” not only because it’s far from being a fancy-pants dish, but also because the photo above shows it served in some rustic pottery I bought from the original potter on a road trip I…
More [Cowbell] Strawberries
After writing about the strawberry yoghurt trifle, I went hunting for more strawberries. Found this lovely nature poem. My Strawberry O marvel, fruit of fruits, I pauseTo reckon thee. I ask what causeSet free so much of red from heatsAt…
Quick Pasta Bolognese Sauce
One of the dishes I fed my daughter constantly when she was little was spaghetti bolognese. It was her favourite at home, whenever we travelled, whenever we went to a restaurant. I was totally fine with that; carbs, meat, vegetables…
Roast Chicken With A Secret Ingredient
A roast chicken dinner is the bomb. It’s THE comfort food. I’ve tried other people’s methods. So here’s mine – the combination of what I’ve learned and experienced over <achoo> years, with a special nod to a secret ingredient my…
