Food – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Fried pigeon egg for breakfast

This is a rather convenient arrangement – I ‘ate facking pigeons.

Onion-Apollo and old chorizo moon fight it out in a stewpot-cosmos of bean-stars

I think it’s quite Turner, but the public says it’s underexposed and I should have cleaned the camera lens. Alubias pintas by.

Juvenal: Will you please … learn the colour of your own bread

Class consciousness didn’t commence in the bakeries of the Industrial Revolution.

Otto van Veen, distribution of herring and white bread after the raising of the Spanish siege of Leiden by the Geuzen in 1574

Brilliant online Spanish eco-wholefoods supplier

Rincón del Segura delivers an incredibly tasty range of basics nationwide.

Comments at ABC

On the discovery of perhaps Neolithic paintings of seals at Nerja in Málaga.

Comer chez el Agüelo

Los comensales: ¿Puedo mojar en tu huevo? Los postres: Gelat de framgüesa.

La lengua secreta de los cazadores

–¿Cómo se llama un cerdo silvestre que acaba de salir del bosque? –¡Jaballí! Not one of mine. If you prefer your animal tame and stuffed, Lenox has a bull’s head for you. I almost acquired one from a bar that was closing down, but there were parasites crawling out of its orifices.

Brazo de gitano with flesh-coloured filling

It always seemed wrong that the custard was yolk-hued, so a bottle of cochineal was acquired for Halloween.

Separating egg yolks from whites

Tülin Özen’s shell technique in Semih KaplanoÄŸlu’s Bal, comparison with the palm technique, brief speculation re historical usage of both, and a Moorish honey-cookie recipe.

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La mayoría

–¡Qué gracioso que la mayoría de los guiris decís “avellanas” en vez de “havaianas“! –¿Eh? No me suena, y ¿qué quieres decir con “la mayoría”, { 50% + 1 } o { casi todos } ? –Bueno, la hermana de X lo dice… Al DRAE le falta el primer matiz, el segundo quizá puede esperar.