Three Russian rooster animations

“Big cock” and “The old man and the cock are versions of “Medio pollico” / “Demi-coq”, and “Why the cock wears shorts” is something else.

But this *is* my good side!

Guerrilla gardening in Barcelona

Check out Alex on the birth, death, and resurrection of a patch of green. Contrary to what some may suspect, it wasn’t this neighbour who closed down v0.1 but the owner of this bookshop, who apparently preferred the redundant building site opposite her living room window to be occupied by filth and the occasional junky.…

Filets de Lapin as at Barcelona

From Georgiana Hill, The gourmet’s guide to rabbit cooking, by an old epicure (1859): Take the fillets from a fine young Ostend rabbit (by the fillet is meant the thick part of the thigh, separated from the bone) cut the meat into slices, round ways, of about three-quarters of an inch thick; let them soak…