...and also remember the Market of Wonders.
Nothing but tears for That Speech. I don't know how Sam does it.
Places in Mass Effect - The Citadel Supposedly constructed by the long-extinct Protheans, this colossal deep-space station serves as the capital of the Citadel Council. Gravity is simulated through rotation, and is a comfortable 1.02 standard G’s on the Wards and a light 0.3 standard G’s on the Presidium Ring. Total Length (Open): 44.7 km Diameter (Open): 12.8 km Population: 13.2 million (not including keepers) Gross Weight: 7.11 billion metric tons
Uncredited 1973 cover art to ‘The City and the Stars’, by Arthur C. Clarke.
Green - Inari Krohn , 2021.
Finnish,b.1945-
Etching, aquatint, Chine Collée , 43 x 32 cm.
Whats the saddest meal you can think of?
…………cheesy peasy…..
Some photos of the “food” section of the Pompeii exhibit at the MSI. I found this section especially fascinating because 1. I love food but also 2. People really are just gonna people. That frying pan looks like the cast iron frying pan I cook with. Next to it is a strainer that’s actually very similar to my mesh strainer and if I could buy one like that today, I would.
That large orange terracotta bowl is two thousand years old and looks like something you could buy in a bougie home goods store today.
The last photo is recognizable to most people with a tumblr and a passing interest in history as a loaf of Roman bread – it has the classic round shape with scoring across the top and an indentation around the edge where it was baked with a cord wrapped around it. It’s a copy of course, but it’s a resin cast of an actual loaf of bread recovered from Pompeii. As a bread baker myself I spent quite a while studying it.
[ID: Three photos; top, a display of cookware including a modern-looking cast-iron skillet, a small, deep strainer with a long handle, and an angular, deep cooking pot. Lower left, a bright orange bowl with a flat bottom, high rim, and decorative printing on the outside; it has been cleaned and shines with a high red burnish. Lower right, the bread loaf appears as a round black disc with score marks around the edge and on the top.]
A follow-up of sorts from this post about modern reproductions of ancient kitchen kit.
DD said, “I like the red-ware bowl” and I said “easy to find”. Maybe not that bowl exactly, but there’s plenty of repro Samian ware available for the reenactment market.
…and several recipes for that Roman loaf (panis quadratis), though modern ovens can’t go high enough for the authentic charred-by-a-volcano look…
…and I bet the result tastes a lot better for it.
An untitled wood engraving by Eric Ravilious for the Kynoch Press, 1932.
