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On Friday, I was finishing up my codfish project. (Local artists are decorating wooden codfish cutouts, which will be displayed in Marblehead and auctioned to benefit the Marblehead Arts Festival). I decided to call my codfish "Bela Bacalhau" because she is decorated with a Portuguese theme of blue and white tiles (azulejos). Well, there was a lot of "detailing" to do to get my design finished, but I also wanted to paint the back and sign it. Here is Bela, just about to be packed up. . . .
A Pastel de Bacalhau, or Pastéis de Bacalhau, is a codfish turnover or salted cod pastry. Portuguese in origin, the deep fried pastry, features bacalhau, or salted cod, bathed in olive oil.
A Bolinho de Bacalhau is a codfish cake or salted cod fritter, are one of Brazil's favorite bar snacks. Portuguese in origin, the deep fried fritters, often in the form of balls, are typically filled with potatoes, bacalhau (codfish), eggs, and parsley.
Hocca Bar, located in the mezzanine and in two stalls on the main level of Mercado Municipal de São Paulo, has been serving Paulistas since 1952 when it was opened by Portuguese immigrants Horácio Gabriel and his wife Maria de Deus Ferreira. Hocca serves many "lanches," including a very popular mortadella sandwich, but it is their pastéis de bacalhau, made according to a family recipe, which have earned them their reputation.
Mercado Municipal de São Paulo, located at Rua da Cantareira 306, is a 12,600-square-meter market hall hosts one of São Paulo's largest produce and food markets, packed with 291 shops selling all manners of vegetables, fruits, spices, dairy products, fish and meat every day starting at 6am. The 3-floor, 2-story neo-classical building was designed by architect Francisco Ramos de Azevedo’s office in 1926, and constructed between 1928 and 1932. Its scheduled opened was delayed by the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932, when the uncompleted structure served as headquarters for the military and as a warehouse for arms and munition, before finally opening as a public market on January 25, 1933. Mercadão (The Big Market), as it is affectionately known by locals, welcomes around 14,000 visitors daily, and employs more than 1,500 people, which together handle about 450 tons of food per day in more than 290 boxes.
Happy New Year of Rabbit:
Rice with seasoned codfish, pepperoni and cheese, mandarin sauce sparerib, carrot and golden coin chocolate.
File name: 10_03_001762a
Binder label: Stoves
Title: Greatly improved for 1881. The Adams & Westlake wire gauze, non-explosive oil stove. Hotel De Codfish. With armour's flue heating attachment. (front)
Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 9 x 14 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Codfish; Animals in human situations; Stoves
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: The Adams & Westlake Mnf'g Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
A clue: I was not actually standing behind a wall.
Another clue: All the shading of the "wall" was manually created.
Yet another clue: I think you can best enjoy this either large or biggie-sized. You can't really appreciate the detail, however, unless you go to the biggie-sized image, especially the detail that I created in the text.
A final clue: I was tagged by the lovely and gracious lastyearsgirl_ to share 9 things about myself in 2009, so...
1. One of my major goals in life is to have a work of my fiction published, a short story or a novel. I don't care which. I wouldn't mind making my living as a writer, if I can wrangle it.
2. I'm a racing fan, mostly of Formula One. I blame me father, as he not only was a race driver parttime when I was a kid, but he also worked on a pit crew, too. Not at the Formula One level, but still....
3. Favourite Drinks: Water, Diet Coke, Guinness, Whiskey (often with Coke, but not necessarily), Vodka (usually with orange juice or lemonade), wine (red, red, wine! Merlot being one of my faves, but I also like a good Pinot Noir, like Robert Mondavi's), Caipiroska.
4. Favourite ethnic foods: Spaghetti (almost anything Italian, actually), Green Curry Chicken (a Thai dish), Curried Goat (Jamaican), Codfish (I'm becoming a fan of many of the 1001 ways that the Portuguese prepare cod).
5. Most Unusual Food I've Ever Tried: Octopus, which I had on the last night of my last visit to Portugal, back in March/April of 2008. It was damned good, too!
6. I would love to learn to fly a plane. I took classroom lessons for flying a glider years and years ago, but never actually had the opportunity to go up in one.
7. My Top Ten Favourite Authors (in no particular order): Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Shakespeare, Stephen King, J. R. R. Tolkien, Alexandre Dumas, James P. Blaylock, Charles Dickens.
8. My MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) is INTJ - Introverted/Intuitive/Thinking/Judging. The "judging" part means only that I like "closure." It has nothing to do with being judgmental. INTJs tend to be perfectionists, but their practicality prevents their perfectionism from becoming paralyzing. How's that for a string of words beginning with P? :P
9. I really like how the image above turned out, even after futzing about with it in Photoshop. Using ISO 100 preserved an amazing amount of detail, despite the ghetto-lighting, as Daz* likes to call it.
I may or may not tag some of you to do the same. :P
This is part of my prep work for a wooden codfish that I am decorating for the Marblehead Arts Festival. (There will be fifty of these wooden codfish, each decorated by a local artist. The codfish will be on display in Marblehead and auctioned off this summer.) I am using tissue paper to create a silver codfish with pink and blue markings. I also want to suggest scales with gold accents, but have been struggling with how to do it. I tried painting through a net, but the method was unreliable. I even had the idea of painting the net itself and pasting pieces of it into the surface. But I thought it was a bit too literal, and besides, the net was casting a bit of shadow on the surface. So the other day, I gave it another try, on a piece of computer paper and came up with a method that works: dipping the net in the paint, pressing it in place, and rolling over the net with the handle of a brush. Here is my trial run and this is how it looks.
Omg, I just cannot believe that I finally have received the financial help I was waiting for just about... one whole year! Too bad I had so much work I didn't even have the time to feel happy about it.
Yes, I had to do a presentation today at my job, and this was what I was wearing. I am a pretty formal worker, as you can see :p
Oh, and btw, it seems that Spring is finally here!
Black headband - thrifted
Codfish t-shirt - Lup
Black jacket - H&M thrifted
Black leather belt - thrifted ar Feira da Ladra
Gray denim shorts - gift from a friend
Black vintage biker boots - The The
Waking up once again to Darkness and Rain, I got some Brightness from this pretty Poached Egg Plant, Limnanthes douglasii, that I saw a fortnight or so ago at Buitenpost.
I'm always quite amazed how many plants were imported to Europe in the days of the Great Explorers. Our Limnanthes was first collected on the Pacific Coasts of North America by that adventurous explorer, naturalist, botanist, mountain climber, the Scot David Douglas (1799-1834). He sent it to the Royal Horticultural Society where it fell into the hands of another intrepid naturalist. This was Robert Brown (1773-1858). He'd begun his botanical career as the naturalist aboard Matthew Flinders's (1774-1814) HMS Investigator. That ship was the first European one to circumnavigate Australia, and Brown put together an enormous collection of plants. Once returned home to London, he spent many years cataloguing his finds. His stature as a botanist was enormous, and he named many plants. But he was also a microscopist and made the first modern scientific observation of the cell nucleus (in orchids). Earlier, at the very beginning of modern science, Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) had already made similar observations in the blood cells of codfish and salmon.
Limnanthes-with-its-pretty-yellow-centre was named by Brown in 1833. Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1837 writes that the name is derived from the Greek to indicate its habitat: "the sides of watery places" (not as is sometimes said 'marshes'). 'Douglasii' is for David Douglas, of course.
Well, Groningen today is watery enough...
Chatham, Massachusetts: Codfish are sorted into totes aboard the gillnetter Rugrats. From there the tote is emptied into a hydraulic bin which is raised, then emptied down a chute, where they're put onto ice and sent out the back door of the pier into waiting trucks. Chatham codfish.
© Christopher Seufert Photography
Oceanário de Lisboa
Peixe apreciado gastronomicamente por portugueses. A origem de seu consumo remonta à época das navegações, onde precisavam de um peixe que aguentasse o salgamento (técnica de conserva) para não perecer durante as longas viagens. O peixe que se prestou a essa finalidade foi encontrado próximo entre o Polo Norte e a Noruega.
Como características marcante, o bacalhau possui uma faixa externa que facilita sua comunicação com o cardume, mas desde que descoberto pelo homem, e o advento de certos técnicas de pesca, isso lhe rende certa facilidade de captura.
This is a very rough sketch done with fine-line marker on a small piece of paper. I made this sketch a few days ago to help me make a color choice for the wooden codfish cutout that I am decorating for the Marblehead Arts Festival. For this project, I created a pattern inspired by Portuguese blue and white tiles (azulejos) and gave my fish a Portuguese name, Bela Bacalhau (beautiful codfish). By Friday, I had drawn in the whole design onto the wooden fish with fine-line marker. (See post for May 6, 2016). But I was still trying to decide about the color for the little "wave" patterns inside each square. Should I leave them as is color them in with dark blue, or color them in with a lighter blue? I decided to do a little rough sketch so I could ask innocent bystanders what they thought. (See post for May 9.) I asked family members and friends which square they preferred. What I heard: the two-tone idea is good, but do I want people to perceive the outline or the pattern? That was an interesting question, which led me to a better solution. I wanted a blue that was close to the outline color, but perceptibly different. That way, I would create a two-tone effect, the pattern would pop out, and the outline would still show. So I grabbed another Sharpie and filled in the waves in the white square with a bright blue. (See upper right square.) That color seemed right, but I wasn't ready to actually change the pattern on the wooden fish until I did tried one more thing. . . To be continued.