Today in Food on Fridays, we take a look at the comeback of the Dolomiti.
Food on Fridays: A Dolomiti comeback of sorts
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A fork on the step
Although the title may sound a little mysterious, I mean intend it literally. Continue reading
One to Many
In the following image we see a photo of a piano keyboard stored in the cabinet under our TV set: Continue reading
Monday Mysteries: The Peacock and the Pretzel
Today on Monday Mysteries we look at an unusual golden sign that pairs a peacock and a pretzel.
Food on Fridays: An Eggstravaganza
Today on Food on Fridays it’s all about eggs. Easter eggs, that is. Continue reading
Ducks on parade
Take a look in the following photos at how a couple of the ducklings just won’t fall into a straight line behind their mother. Two of the kids are always side-by-side, rather than one behind the other. Continue reading
She was a scamp …
Chris recently ran across a mystery novel both written and set in the 1920s. The action takes place during the filming of a silent movie, and it talks about how the actors are all playing stock types in movies of that era. For example, there’s always the ingenue, an innocent young woman; the menacing “heavy”, who is the villain and the “juvenile”, who is the young male romantic lead. Plus, there’s always a vampire. Continue reading
Tuesday Tips
It’s harder than you might think to come up with an alliterative title for an “odds and ends” type of post on a Tuesday. “Tuesday this and that” didn’t have the right ring. I tried to find something using the words for Tuesday in either German, Dienstag, or Italian, martedì, but those didn’t work out well (Dienstag detrius or Martedì mishmash, anyone? So, in the end, I went with “Tuesday Tips” for the want of anything else. So, here are the tips:
Food on Fridays: Running Rabbits
Today on Food on Fridays we return to a theme I’ve touched on before: holiday desserts made from Quarkteig, dough made with quark, a soft creamcheese-like cheese.
Inspired by Berenice
This past Tuesday I gave another talk at the German-American Institute (d.a.i.) here in Tübingen on 20th Century American Women Photographers. It was part 2 of the lecture series, and I presented the women who were what I called the “Photo Journalists: Documenting the World in Difficult Times”. The four women I profiled all had very different careers as a whole, but in the 1930s, all four of them did social documentary-style photography of one sort or another. Continue reading