Tag: Scarves
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Food is Desire
“With apricots and dewberries,With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighsAnd light them at the fiery glow-worm’s eyes,To have my love to bed and to arise;And pluck the wings from painted butterfliesTo fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes:Nod to him, elves, and do him…
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Food is Science
Legend has it that the panettone came into being from a forbidden romance in the 15th century. During a Christmas Eve feast hosted by the Duke of Milan, Ludovico il Moro, his head pastry chef burnt the dessert while stealing a kiss from a nobleman’s beautiful wife in the medieval passageway. A young scullery boy…
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Food is Art
The Last SupperPainted in 1498, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper has been described as “one of the greatest manifestations of intellectual power in art,” the most literary of all great pictures. The painting interweaves powerful telling of the gospel story and visual techniques which illustrate the artist’s mastery. It tells the Bible story of…
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Cocktail
Late afternoon in Bali, the cockfights will go on for three, four hours until sunset. Nine to ten matches, arranged impromptu, are held in a ring of 50 feet square. Once a match is made, the cocks are affixed with their spurs, which are razor sharp, pointed steel swords of five inches long, by winding…
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The Dancer
With the days stretching longer begins the mating season for the mourning doves in my backyard. The male stretches his wings to make a downward circular glide. Then he puffs out his chest and slowly bounces his head up and down to call for his mate. They like to perch close to each other on…
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The Peacock
“The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!” wrote Charles Darwin in 1860. Darwin, along with other naturalists of his times, had theorized that the broad diversification in bird coloration evolved as a function of sexual selection. But the peacock took it to such extreme that…
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Plumage
Feather grows much like our hair: a meticulously constructed mass of dead protein, called beta-keratin, pushed out from a follicle in the living skin. An analogy for feather is like a tree – its trunk, a hollow central shaft, is called a rachis, numerous branches stemmed from the rachis are called barbs, and from the…
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Dance the Orange
Yonder stands the orange treeShowing off its fruits to me,Gleaming teardrops lovers shedStained by passion’s heartbreak red. Balls of agate carmine-brightHung on boughs of chrysolite,Sent a-spinning from the treesBy the mallet of the breeze. Now I kiss them, now inhale;Thus my senses I regaleWith their cheeks’ so tender bloomAnd the sweets of their perfume.– Ibn…
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Citrus
Twenty-five millions years ago, when the Indian subcontinent collided into the Eurasian plate to seal the remaining Tethys Ocean gap while thrusting the Himalayas skyward, began the spread of the citrus genus to East Asia. Its cultivation first expanded eastward into Micronesia and Polynesia by Austronesian voyagers between 3000 and 1500 BC. It traveled westward…
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The Unicorn
“But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.”– Psalm 22:19-21 First appearing in the Bronze Age Indus…
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