#cous-cous

01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 15

Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils, (FRENCH 1813-1875)

Family at doorway preparing cous-cous

Oil on canvas 

90 x 67cm (35.5 x 26.25in) 

Private collection

Isidore-Alexandre-Augustin Pils (19 July 1813/15, Paris – 3 December 1875, Paris) was a French painter. Pils was born in Paris. At the age of twelve, he studied with Guillaume Guillon-Lethière for four years. He later studied under…

Las recetas de mis amigos: (Cous cous con ternera, pollo y verduras)

Una de las cosas que más me gusta de tener el blog, es la generosidad que tiene la gente conmigo, respecto a sus recetas más preparadas en casa.

Si os digo que la persona que me ha dado esta receta de “Cous-cous“, la conozco desde hace casi 30 años, me quedo corta. Hemos visto como crecían mis hermanos, hemos visto crecer a…

L'appuntamento per cena a base di cous-cous diventa la scusa per far lavorare il povero Buce che si trova suo malgrado, debilitato dai morsi della fame e da quelli delle zanzare, a zappare la terra ripulita dalle piante ormai secche di fagiolini per seminarne di nuovi.

Intanto raccogliamo per la prossima stagione semi di cetriolo, zucchina e girasole e qualche foglia di stevia da far essicare per testarne le proprietà zuccherine nella prossima torta di carote.

And all you can think about as they go on and on to their comrades is that the painter must have been high out of his mind when he painted it.

And you realize a while later that the artist was indeed legitimately high when he painted that particular piece you saw so long ago.

I love those moments. Fuck you single-minded interpreters, the artist doesn't even know what the fuck he meant. So stop pretending you know, and figure out what it means to you. Bitch.