Food in the Middle Ages - Getty Museum
10 years ago
When my niece was visiting the week before Christmas, we went to the Getty Museum, which has a special food exhibit:
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Comments (11)What you say about "end(ing) up with something that looks like the surrounding countryside that you didn't do anything to . . .pretty futile" is an interesting comment. I visited a show on the history of land use at the Museum of New Hampshire History on Wed. One of the points made was that the white settlers felt they were within their rights in taking much of the land the Indians (Native Americans)claimed because the Indians had not changed the land enough to make it theirs. Had not cut down the forests, farmed the land, made roads, and so on. Their European ethic was that to "own" the land, you must change it appreciably. Not so different, on a deep level, from what we do today. Planting all natives may feel like we are not changing the land appreciably; it doesn't look enough like we have "done" enough to make it ours.. I remember seeing a slide show several years ago that accompanied a lecture by a developer who had designed suburban cluster homes leaving nearly all of the trees, dividing up the lots and laying out the driveways to maximize privacy and minimize damage to the land. I agreed with the design principles, but the outcome was unsettling; the road through the development looked like a lonely road thru the woods; the houses were dark and in deep shadows as they were surrounded by tall trees, small holes having been cut out of the forest to put the houses down on. It seemed rather gloomy and isolated. I think a great many of us need to see evidence that the land has been changed by our hands in order to feel comfortable aesthetically. I plant natives and encourage others to do so to for many reasons. Also plant and love introduced plants. G....See MoreMy kid is a brat: College-aged kids and manners?
Comments (75)So happy for you judithn...took me back to when my kids were in college in our city, but living on campus. Sounds like a great conversation, and something she needed to hear, and you were able to do it in such a way that she really listened, and matured enough to apologize. You obviously have a great daughter, there, and now you have practice for when your son leaves home...heh heh!! We Moms have to support one another...our kids are in their early 40's, so a lot of this type of thing is behind us, but there are always things to work out. We do have very thoughtful children now...they just weren't so much at your daughter's age!!...See MoreAn Ode to the fast food Hamburger
Comments (47)I just remembered. I have had McDonalds burgers many times! Every time I traveled to a different country, I always ended up going to their McDonalds at least once. For instance, when I was in Paris, I was getting tied of French food the last days. Let me tell you, a French Big Mc tasted really good. When I was in Argentina, where they really like meat, I even had a Royal Cheese with wine. Yes, you can get wine with your "Big Mac" there. From Pulp Fiction ------------------------------------------- VINCENT: ...You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris? JULES: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese? VINCENT: No, they got the metric system there, they wouldn't know what the f??k a Quarter Pounder is. JULES: What'd they call it? VINCENT: Royale with Cheese. JULES: Royale with Cheese. What'd they call a Big Mac? VINCENT: Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac. JULES: What do they call a Whopper? VINCENT: I dunno, I didn't go into a Burger King. -------------------------------------- dcarch This post was edited by dcarch on Fri, Jan 16, 15 at 14:36...See MoreObservation on food preferences
Comments (89)I also like sardines and crackers, they were always "camping food" and so they have good memories for me. Plus, I like fish and seafood, so there's that. Olychick, I meant to say that I have actually changed the way I install the toilet paper roll. At home it was always "over", and so I did that for years. Then we had a cat that would sit on the lid of the toilet and "spin" the roll with both front feet and watch it unroll. Being unable to convince my girls to just close the darned door, I switched to the "under" method of installing toilet paper and then when the cat spun that roll it just went around and around and did not unroll. So, I changed it, but I changed it for a reason. Now I automatically install it "under" and Elery tells me it's wrong. I told him that he never owned my particular cat, LOL. Annie...See More
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There were two separate exhibits - one was Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and the other (which is still going on) is The Art of Food for Festivals, which is quite a bit smaller than the first one. I'll post a few more photos later. I liked the Festival Food better because it was more decorative.
This picture was called "The Pastry Shop"
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