Archive for April 2005
Puerto Rican recipes, including plantain balls for soups or stews. Savory Twinkies. Slice: America’s Favorite Pizza Weblog. Fruitcake recipes courtesy of Uncle Phaedrus, Finder of Lost Recipes. Chicken with walnuts. Lunch photos at Happy Cafe. Food Porn Watch. Cooking Diva (Panama). Noodle Pie (Vietnam). Delicious Days (Germany). Nordljus. Simply Recipes.
The American Bamboo Society: includes a page of suggested bamboo literature. Tripple Brook Farm in Massachusetts sells hardy bamboos for the northeast and has a great catalog of other plants, too. Bamboo flooring and bamboo plywood. On bamboo musical instruments, including the anklung (”Meals can be without meat, but living cannot be without bamboo”). 1,000 Things Made of Bamboo.
Thirty-seven short Fluxus films by Nam June Paik, Paul Sharits, Yoko Ono, and others. There are more artists’ films at UbuWeb. British video artists at Luxonline. The Open Video Archive: “241 hours of contributed material.”
Candy recipes by region. How they are made at Dultimex. Calaveras de azucar: picture and recipe.
Mexgrocer.com will mail you candy. There are real fun sounds army tank pinatas at pinatas.com. Skwinkles and other choices at Dandyboy. A recipe for caramels. A page of Mexican candy cigarettes. More pictures. Finally, George W. Bush pinatas at georgewbushpinata.com, evilpinatas.com, and other places. Delicias mejicanas.
A slow but aggressive spreader. Some facts: “In recent years it has been largely employed in experiments relating to the forcing of plants by means of anaesthetics such as chloroform and ether. It has been found that the winter buds, placed in the vapour of chloroform for a few hours and then planted, break into leaf and flower considerably before others not tested in this manner, the resulting plants being, moreover, exceptionally fine.” A poisonous plant that may strengthen the brain and renovate a weak memory. Flowers are associated with May Day in France. Also a book by Balzac.
