Yesssssssss on Mellis... Best dang cheese I've ever eaten!

What's interesting is that apparently most Italian pasta companies use a mix of wheat grown in Italy (70%) and wheat grown elsewhere -- in Russia but also California & Arizona. So negatively impacting this market will also negatively impact American farmers. It's almost as if they don't care...

That looks more like a combination of the circulatory system and the nervous system -- the brain is shown, for example, which is more characteristic of nervous system diagrams. Just to be pedantic about it! ;)

I mean.... worth it, though, right?

I'm an art historian. And a literal thinker. I *always* fail Captcha repeatedly, over and over, because I insist that a tiny bit of the handlebar is *still* "a bike". I honestly have no idea what those things want from me, other than apparently an incorrect response! The example you posted: hell.

Thank you for that -- I told my kids to close their eyes while I counted to 5, then when they opened them, and I hollered 6-7 while showing them this photo ;) Happy Halloween!

(That was for Jacqueline; I'm betting you already know her work, Sarah!)

Well, I'd wager it has something to do with the historical equation of marble with idealized whiteness (both aesthetic and racial). See Charmaine A. Nelson's work for an excellent discussion of this.

They were so, so good. I put it on the list for holiday baking this year!

Wishing you speedy healing!

I have one Victorian oval frame hanging up with nothing in it. We call it the "ghost portrait". But I'm not trendy...

For real. A lot of them use text-to-speech but don't like the way the 'robotic' voice sounds. Art students, so they like to listen while they work. Of course, the illustrations and diagrams are key for the book, but having an audio version would still help more of them do the reading...

Yes, you should. Using your book this semester in my Histories of the Book class, and is there an audiobook version is always a question I get ;)

But is it *ultramarine blue*, made with ground lapis lazuli imported from early modern Afghanistan? ;) Just a little art historian humor -- it is gorgeous!

Same!

I saw the original working images for it last year at the Kerlan Collection (U of MN), and it was so strange to realize how unusually vivid the colors were and are for the time -- it was printed using the color separation process (I think?), just incredible in the saturation and depth of color.