The advertisement below is for the Austrian brewery Trumer. They decided to publicize their beer by building a Rube Goldberg-type affair (or, for viewers in Britain and her former colonies, a ‘Heath Robinson‘ sort of thing). This is the result. Full marks for creativity! Peter
Tag: Food and Drink
Does Jesus appear in food, and if so, why?
I’ve written before about the face of Jesus being ‘identified’ in food or other objects. It never ceases to amaze me how often others seem to find him portrayed in something edible. Here are a couple of examples, courtesy of the Village Voice: Jesus in a burnt frying pan Jesus on a banana (does this… Continue reading Does Jesus appear in food, and if so, why?
Talk about a food obsession!
Via TJIC, we learn of Jeff Varasano’s quest for the perfect New York-style pizza. Pizza is the most sensuous of foods. I get emails from around the world and one of the most common goes something like this: “Jeff, I had this one perfect pizza at a corner shop in Brooklyn in 1972 and I’ve… Continue reading Talk about a food obsession!
Alcoholic art???
The Daily Mail reports that a US firm has come up with a new twist in modern art. These incredible pictures show popular cocktails magnified up to 1,000 times under a high-tech laboratory microscope. Produced by U.S. firm Bevshots, they reveal the incredible molecules and kaleidoscopic colours created by the different combinations. American Amber Ale… Continue reading Alcoholic art???
The soup’s off, I’m afraid . . .
At least, I’d assume so, given that it’s over two millennia old! The Daily Mail reports: Sealed in a three-legged bronze cooking pot, the culinary find was dug up from a tomb near the ancient capital of Xian. It is 8in high and 10in in diameter and would have been used for cooking and serving… Continue reading The soup’s off, I’m afraid . . .
Everything you wanted to know about men (but were afraid to ask)
Brigid has published a concise user’s guide to the male sex, for the benefit of her sisters (although it’ll doubtless have the side-effect of teaching some of us men a few things about ourselves we hadn’t thought about either!). It’s very funny. A few examples: Impulse buying: Marketing everywhere will quickly tell you that the… Continue reading Everything you wanted to know about men (but were afraid to ask)
Dresden bakers do it again!
I’m always pleased to read of the annual Dresden Stollen Festival. After the nightmarish destruction of that city in 1945, it’s good to see it restored to urban health, so to speak. Being also very partial to good German Stollen, I enjoy seeing it in humongous quantities! Every year the bakers of Dresden assemble the… Continue reading Dresden bakers do it again!
Don’t read this if you haven’t eaten recently!
Damn, this makes me hungry! Peter
That’s one heck of a Christmas tree!
How about a Christmas tree made of four tons of chocolate? Four tons of chocolate . . . somehow I can’t quite get my mind around having that in my living-room! I’d probably die from a chocolate overdose – but what a way to go! Peter
World’s most expensive bottle of tequila?
There’s a new entry in the conspicuous consumption sweepstakes. The Daily Mail reports: A Mexican distiller has produced what it hopes will become the world’s most expensive tequila in a platinum and diamond-studded bottle. Hacienda La Capilla‘s ‘The Diamond Sterling’ comes in a 1.3-litre ceramic bottle coated in more than 5lbs of platinum. But that’s… Continue reading World’s most expensive bottle of tequila?