Posted in Tidbit Tuesday, tagged dinosaur, giancarlo, new banner on December 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Oh, hey! It’s Tidbit Tuesday! Kind of. Not really. Not at all.
BUT you may have noticed that I have this new mega-awesome-super-duper-best-ever banner!
IKNORITE!?
And it’s all thanks to this guy right here:
This is my friend Giancarlo. He’s not really a dinosaur.
Check his stuff here, his Twitter here, and his Facebook here. It’s the polite thing to do.
Keep eating and asking, my friends.
Esther
Posted in Tidbit Tuesday, tagged giant food, photography, william h. martin on November 27, 2012 | 2 Comments »
What’s that I smell? Another Tidbit Tuesday!?
I love you, Mrs. Beeton.
This week I’m sharing some postcards created by one William H. “Dad” Martin. No relation.
I had to.
Martin was a photographer located in Ottawa, Kansas during the turn of the century. He started out in 1894 as a photographer but it wasn’t until 1908 when he started using trick photography that he hit the big time.
“Taking geese to market” from 1909. Really big geese.
That was a pun. I made a punny.
Martin produced a series of postcards, many of which featured hugely exaggerated images of food. The photos were so popular that over the next three years he earned the equivalent of more money than I will ever have in my entire life.
Enjoy.
Posted in Holidays, Poultry, Tidbit Tuesday, tagged thanksgiving, tidbit tuesday, turkey on November 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Aloha! That’s Polish for “Holy crap, it’s Tidbit Tuesday!”
THEY’RE MINI TURKEY BURGERS!!!
Thanksgiving is on Thursday. It’s a day for us to eat all the green bean casserole and take all the naps and have all the family fights. Those things are, of course, essential to a proper Thanksgiving, but the real star of the day is our tricky friend, the turkey.
Ooooooh so fiiiiine.
Posted in Tidbit Tuesday, tagged Ifejioku, oceania, rituals, yam spirit, yams on November 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
Soooo yesterday we talked about yam mythology. Today let’s talk about the rituals that surround those myths.
Dancer in the New Yam Festival in Nigeria.
Posted in Tidbit Tuesday, tagged ashanti, mythology, oceania, thanksgiving, yams on November 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Tidbit Tuesday. Rejoice!
Tiny tubers on Tidbit Tuesday. BOOM.
It’s nearing Thanksgiving so today we’re going to talk about yams. Not all about yams because, frankly, it would take several posts. The history of the yam is complicated and lengthy and, while I think it would be mega interesting, I want to keep it simple.
So I’m going to tell you a bit about yam mythology. Tomorrow I’ll tell you about yam rituals.
An Abelam yam mask. The Abelam people put these masks on their yams to transform them into the yam god.
The yam is a staple in many cultures. There are tons of species all over the world and for the most part they aren’t that different from each other. People use the word “yam” to talk about other root crops, like sweet potatoes, taro, and oca, but they aren’t the same root. The confusion comes from the origin of the word “yam.”
Story time!
Posted in American Traditions, Sweets, Tidbit Tuesday, tagged amelia simmons, election cake, tidbit tuesday, voting on November 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You may have noticed that it’s not Tuesday.
Doesn’t have the same ring.
My bad.
I was pretty busy yesterday, running here and there and doing things like voting. Oh, right, there was that election thing yesterday. Woo!
WE ARE BOTH SO INTENSE TAKE US SRSLY.
So lemme ask ya this:
Ever heard of Election cake? Now ya have.
Errrm….not….exactly….
Posted in American Traditions, Holidays, Tidbit Tuesday, tagged candy, halloween, tidbit tuesday, trick-or-treating on October 30, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Wut wuuuuuut it’s time for another Tidbit Tuesday!
I had a discussion the other day with my coworkers about how we trick-or-treated. There was talk of plastic orange pumpkins, shopping bags, and pillowcases (my weapon of choice). One girl even used a McDonald’s Happy Meal box. Then we talked about how awesome candy is and everyone should eat candy all the time and then not get obese and die.
omgcandy
But why do we trick-or-treat for candy on Halloween? Where did that tradition start? When did it start? Why candy?
Because CANDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.
Well, it started in America. To understand why it started we need to talk a little about the beginning of Halloween in North America. Very, very briefly.
Briefs.
Posted in Holidays, Tidbit Tuesday, tagged halloween, menu, party, the old foodie, tidbit tuesday on October 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Well, hello! It’s Tidbit Tuesday!
Today’s Tidbit is a short but thematically correct one. It’s a Halloween menu published in the Fort Wayne Sentinel on October 29, 1906.
Posted in Holidays, Tidbit Tuesday, tagged colcannon, halloween, ireland, kale, scotland on October 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Tidbit Tuesday, ya’ll!
It’s some tasty tidbits.
It’s October and nearing on Halloween so I thought I’d go that route. I’m such a sheep.
Mother of god. It’s so cute.
Posted in Tidbit Tuesday, tagged columbus, spice route, spice trade, tidbit tuesday on October 9, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Today I’ll be unrolling a new feature that should keep things interesting. For me and you.
Tidbit Tuesday!
See? It’s a tasty tidbit.
Alliteration!
Every Tuesday I’m going to throw a food tidbit up on this here blog. It could come from something from the interwebz, something from a book, or something I was told by another human bean.
I thought it would keep things interesting. And besides, sometimes you don’t want to read a whole post. Sometimes you just wanna know what fresh pistachios look like.
They’re wrapped in those thingies and they’re red.
And that’s what pistachios look like when they’re raw. You’re welcome.
Anyway, today’s Tidbit (yup, it’s capitalized) will be a revelation to some and old news to others. It’s about our buddy Columbus, the guy we just celebrated for “discovering” the Americas.
He looks tired to me. Bags under the eyes.
