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Lula Macondes
A Tapioca da Tia Lu, 2007
Screen print / Serigraph / Silkscreen
Edition of 50 (Serie XIV / 14)
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Hailing from the city of Olinda, Brazil, which is known for its vibrant art scene, artist Lula Macondes is an architect, musician, and an artist. He draws inspiration from his Brazilian culture, especially the Brazilian folk art movement and a type of woodcutting art, xilogravura, that appears in book sold in the rural areas of Northeast Brazil. In his print A Tapioca Da Tia Lu, Macondes makes a tribute to “Tia Lu,” one of the oldest tapioqueras or tapioca sellers in Olinda.
Tapioca, a culinary icon, is a type of flour derived from the yucca plant and, in the print, the tapioca appears in the form of a traditional kind of taco that is then filled with various ingredients such as shredded coconut and cheese. Macondes created this colorful print depicting a public plaza in Brazil in honor of Tia Lu because he admires her hard work and passion for life.
“Her life is very inspiring, especially how she deals with the obstacles in it and still manages to make amazing tapioca,” he says. For Macondes, art is about focusing on everyday activities as well as the manner in which people make connections.
Macondes received a B.A. in Architecture and Urban Planning at the Federal University at Pernambuco, Brazil and is currently working on an M.A. in Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
Description: Artwork for Ambrosia creamed tapioca milk pudding can label.
Accession Number: SH.2009.88.1
Further Notes: Original artwork created by Smith & Ritchie. Smith and Ritchie were established in Edinburgh in 1853. The firm were multi colour offset printers who were specialist suppliers to the food packaging industry. They were located at Amphion Works in Albert Street. In 1963 Smith & Ritchie became the first printing company in Scotland to use a gravure press and produced reel fed work up to five colours. Smith & Ritchie moved to Livingston in 1986 and in 1991 became the first printing firm in Scotland to use a 10 station gravure press.
Smith & Ritchie have subsequently moved out to Livingston and survive today as Amcor Flexibles S & R. Amcor are originally an Australian company and now have operations in 36 countries around the world specialising in many printed products of which the food packaging that Amcor Flexibles S & R is one.
History: Smith & Ritchie were located at 71 Albert Street, Edinburgh.
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Snack at the Cu Chi Tunnels. Cassava chips dipped in crushed peanuts with sugar and salt, served with pineapple leaf tea.
Tapioca is a starch extracted from cassava. This species is native to Brazil but spread throughout the Americas. The plant was later spread by Portuguese and Spanish explorers to Africa, the Philippines and most of the West Indies, being now cultivated worldwide. In India, the term "tapioca" is used to represent the root of the plant (cassava), rather than the starch.[1] In Vietnam, it is called bột năng. In Indonesia, it is called singkong. In the Philippines, it is called sago. In Malaysia it is called "Ubi Kayu".
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A snack at the Cu Chi Tunnels to showcase the food the Vietnamese had during the Vietnam War.
Tapioca (aka Cassava) is common in the tropics of Asia. Unable to consume raw due to poisons, the tuber must be cooked - usually steamed to purge the poisons. In better times, it is used into a variety of sweet desserts but during wartime, this is the staple that would provide sustenance, albeit a lousy sustenance. (My grandmother had it during WW2 in Singapore too)
It has a starchy but firm texture and leaves a mixed mild sweet and bitter aftertaste. Many of the westerners in the day tour took a curious bite and more or less discarded it aside as a weird curiosity. Pity.
I like tapioca (and yam, and a lot more than sweet potato and WAY more than potato) but hey, then again, I am a boy of the Asian tropics!
(Rollover Picture)
"A Day at the Beach"
"Vanilla 'caviar' (tapioca pearls), sea foam and Scharffen Berger cocoa 'sand.'"
The vanilla tapioca pudding was very very vanilla-y, very good, though a bit congealed into lumps at points. The whipped cream had been spiked with Midori, a melon liquer. The "sand" were little sugar and cocao powder granules - rather mundane and unremarkable - sort of tasted like unflavored cotton candy, to be honest; could hardly detect the chocolate element - at least it got lost amidst the wonderfully prominent vanilla of the pudding, as did the very delicate Midori in the whipped cream.
Coconut tapioca parfait with mango and papaya and home made peppercorn shortbread at Boneta with pannacotta and fruit in the small cup . This is a restaurant with Style
Espresso-soaked house made tapioca biscuits layered with mascarpone and chocolate mousse, finished with croccante di cioccolato ($12)
The scene was incredibly endearing: my sister, alternating with NL, in lapping up every last dollop of this verrine. Suffice it to say, the pair enjoyed this preparation with my sister claiming that it being one that my mother (who LOVES tiramisu) would "really like."