You loved my adventures with plants to color * and you would also like to take action?
The Quai Branly Museum t e proposes to introduce you dye silk scarf e n using powder madder: calendar
Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 11am
Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 11am
Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 11am
Saturday, May 7th, 2011 at 11 am Saturday, July 2
2011 at 11am
For families with children from 3 years duration: 1h30, full rate: 8 € / reduced rate: 6 € 37, quai Branly 75007 - Paris, Tel: 01 56 61 70 00 and will visit the web site:
http://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/programmation/ateliers-et-stages/les-petits-curieux.html * Thomas Aristolochia The Case of the Blues and
And if you can not make thee, here are some examples of silk scarves made with plants by
Workshops Nature, 33 rue Pierre Dulac, 94120 Fontenay-sous-Bois
This is the * grown salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius , Asteraceae family). It is sometimes confused with black salsify or English salsify ( Scorzonera hispanica ).
I worry advises tasting!
* even in the singular, salsify takes an "s" at the end.
I have tested this for you h orrible root Black me that grandmother called "witches fingers," and that I bought at the market.
course, I carefully peeled first and then boil and then cook in a frying pan with the batter.
Test result: not bad at all, a sweet taste very original, but as this is the Jerusalem artichoke farting (and for the same reason, moreover, because the root contains the inulin) .
In fact, what is it? Riddle of the day.
I help:
You already eat these roots, but from a preparation canned or bottled ( no, they are not peas!) or young leaves in salads.
Hello So I finally cooked this squash doubeurre! is what gives it once opened into two (with a solid knife!): Seeds are all grouped at the base. To cook, I first spent in the oven 1 / 2 hour at 180 ° C in order to soften and épucher easily. Once peeled, I put it back in the oven with cheese cubes into the dish. Verdict: not bad, a little disgusting because very sweet to the taste. Rating: 2.5 / 5
As promised, the results for my birthday (2 years).
T irst I do my accounts from visitors on 21/09/2009 but since then more than 2400 visitors have made me more than 3000 visits ( shorter or longer, sometimes a moment sometimes long minutes) and that, stand well from 69 countries across 5 continents.
Two years this corresponds to 223 messages (approximately an average of at least 10 per month on the 2nd year), almost as many photos or drawings, 63 riddles or their answers, places to visits museum display or botanical walks, schools for trades in connection with plants, book fairs to meet.
The Top 12 countries for the number of visits and the number of cities involved is:
1. France (324 cities)
2. Belgium (45 cities)
3. Canada (73 cities)
4. Morocco (13 cities)
5. Switzerland (17 cities)
6. Algeria (8 cities)
7. Tunisia (3 cities)
8. USA (24 cities and 14 states)
9. Spain (12 cities)
10. Meeting (5 cities)
11. Senegal (2 cities)
12. Germany (8 cities)
Thanks to all course with the first French-speaking countries are and a particular interest on the part of our American friends?
In France, the top 12 cities "visitors" is as follows:
1. Paris
2. Montpellier
3. Lyon
4. Toulouse
5. Nantes
6. Bordeaux
7. Strasbourg
8. Rouen
9. Mulhouse
10. Marseille
This gives a beautiful buttons in France a hat off to our friends botanists MONTPELLIE r very active in particular through the site telabotanica. http://www .tela-botanica.org/site: Botanical (cons by our friends Corsicans are waiting for you! !)
Tomorrow is my birthday : 2 years messages i really something to celebrate! I am preparing for tomorrow a "synthesis" on all my friends are bloggers who came to see me since my "birthday" . And today, a picture I took through my experiences: I "test for you" , is a squash q ue called " doubeurre (butternut or if you're a bit posh!) of the Cucurbitaceae family. I photographed on a glass table, so she seems to fly in the air (no evil as indeed!) It measures about 15 cm and weighs 500 g. I will get into its food preparation and'll give news soon. If you want to see more beautiful pictures of cucurbits, returns on my posts and especially of 25/09/2009 01/10/2009 or click denominated "cucurbits. Thomas
New Test: beets and cilantro, carrot and ginger ...
Hello
I have again given me and for you to test ew fruit paste made from unexpected but tasty mixtures fruit and spice.
These pastes are sold at the best confectionery, at least in that of the Rue de la Republique in Saint-Etienne (q ue I know from my adventures with the case of the blues ! ).
Here are my choices in order of preference:
carrot, grapefruit, ginger *
red pepper, raspberry
** beet, melon, coriander *
pumpkin praline, nutmeg *, melon
tomato, olive
strawberry, basil *
strange mix, right?
Ordinarily, I love basil, but in this composition was too peppery basil is therefore ginger (Zingiber officinarum , family Zingiberaceae) which you can admire the rhizome (underground root ) which I appreciate taste hot (sometimes itchy tongue) that had the first prize!
Would you have thought about these mixes sweet and savory? If you have the chance to taste these compositions (or prepare them at home), I await your decision!
* Meet me in "The Thomas and the secret of Aristolochia basil ; '
** Meet me in "The Thomas Aristolochia and the case of the blues" Thomas
Costumes: Anna Hill Johnstone, Flo Transfield Photography: Boris Kaufman
Editing: Gene Milford Music: Leonard Bernstein Production: Sam Spiegel
Company (s) of Production: Columbia Pictures, Horizon Pictures
Company (s) Distribution Columbia Pictures
Country of origin: United States
Duration: 108 minutes (1h 48)
Released: July 28, 1954
Elia Kazan
King of Broadway and Prince of Hollywood
Elia Kazan is at the top of glory when, one day
1952, he became a "friendly witness" of the anti-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and gives the names of ten former Communist Party comrades. Act of betrayal that makes her life upside down as his career. Haunted by guilt, Kazan
abandons movies "on topic", his specialty, and began an intimate work and overwhelming that indelibly mark a generation of gifted filmmakers, from Martin Scorsese
to
Francis Ford Coppola .
1909
Birth Elia Kazanjioglou Constantinople (Turkey) in a Greek family from Anatolia.
1913 Arrive in New Rochelle, NY.
1934-1936 Member of the Communist Party. Foundation Group Theater, which became the Actors Studio. 1947-1948 Created Broadway Death of a Salesman, of Arthur Miller , and A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
. Oscar for best director for The Wall
invisible.
1951 A Streetcar Named Desire four Oscars interpretation.
1954
On the Waterfront, eight Oscars.
1955 East of Eden . 1956 Baby Doll .
1960 Wild River .
1961 Fever in the Blood .
1963
America America.
1969
Arrangement.
1972 Visitors
.
1976
The Last Tycoon.
2003 Died in New York.
On the Waterfront
TALENT Elia Kazan REACHED BY HIS EMOTIONS
is a real movie. A film that restores confidence. A film that proves that cinema is an irreplaceable means of expression, an art whose special qualities do not belong to the novel or the theater. Only the cinema could achieve this blend of flexibility and rigor in the conduct of the narrative to the alliance of aesthetics and realism in the evocation of life, especially in this strange power of enchantment that ultimately influence the audience ... On the Waterfront is, indeed, a film that captivates. If there is a sorcery of the screen, do not doubt that
Elia Kazan
knows the secrets. (...)
Dock workers are subject to the laws of hiring a gang of cons which they dare to rebel. Before the oppression they remain " D and D
"
deaf and dumb , that is to say, deaf and dumb. And when one of them dares to say what he knows, the gang immediately removes ... When the film begins, a worker has been murdered. Among men who took part in the murder is a former boxer rogue, that laziness and vice turned into a little wild lout, fully engaged in his instincts. But at bottom of this being lost consciousness is not quite dead. (...)
The theme of the film is the fight against the forces of evil. Theme splits in passing in turn the particular plan in general terms, but ever to keep its internal unity: it is ultimately the hero because he repents of his sins that dockers are freed from the oppression of the gang. (...) Justice will triumph with the help of the more traditional morality. Since, on the other hand, this reversal of psychological character played by Brando is caused by the love of a maiden virtuous and pure, we come to wonder if
On the Waterfront is nothing a good romantic drama accommodated to the modern sauce. (...) All of this takes away a little resonance to the work. And behind the existing movie can not help imagining the film that
Kazan has probably dreamed of and it was forbidden to do.
The reserve on the merits does not alter our admiration for the formal qualities of On the Waterfront. The talent of
Elia Kazan
reaches its fullness here. It takes us first to a suffocating and brutal universe, then as his hero discovers the purity, tenderness, his images illuminate and extend into the sky and the sea of young gangster drama staff is to also spoke with power and admirable modesty. We are following with emotion the story of this pathetic soul buried in the mud and suddenly reborn in the light.
Kazan proves a master that cinema can be an extraordinary instrument of psychological description. (...)
And
Marlon Brando is truly a great actor. He must have seen his face bruised, dazed by the blows and misery, finding time for a smile, a kind of childlike innocence. (...)
In one of the first pieces of Arthur Miller , They were my son, created in
Broadway in 1947
staging of
Elia Kazan found this exchange between Mr
Keller, owner of his own company, and his son Chris, who is reluctant to take his entourage: Chris
"I was a good son too long, a good pear. It's over. "
Keller:" But you have a case here, what are you talking about? "-" The Case! Case does not inspire me! "-" Let's inspire you? "
" Let's inspire you? "Asked sarcastically, George Kazanjioglou his son
Elia, who wanted to become an actor instead of devoting themselves body and soul to the carpet trade." Let's inspire you? "Questioned Isidore Miller, who had before the disaster of 1929
, a business of making clothes and was very vulnerable when faced with the artistic aspirations of his son. That says what binds
Elia Kazan and
Arthur Miller
: the pain of the son understood that dared to plot its path away from "Case" family, but has never really recovered from fathers have disappointed expectations. After the creation of Death of a Salesman, Miller Kazan
and decide to write together for the film. Their topic? The tragedy of the dockworkers. We are in full witch hunt, and Kazan
chooses to name names. Miller
then refuses any contact with his "twin" and transforms their common project room. View from the Bridge ( 1955) tells how a docker denounced a Sicilian immigrant whose daughter is in love. Filial bruised, revenge sated by the information: there are these themes in On the Waterfront that Kazan wrote with another "principal name" , the novelist Budd Schulberg .
COWARDICE OR COURAGE
Miller denounced the accusation of cowardice; Kazan transforms into courageous denunciation. His Terry Malloy ( Marlon Brando), a former boxer became the handyman's Friendly mafia, decides assist the court. "I'm glad you did!" , he yells, and it Kazan crying with him. By entrusting the role of Friendly - like a father to the fatherless Terry - to J. Lee Cobb , the interpreter traveling salesman, Kazan reveals the secret of his kinship with the movie theater Miller.
The tragedy of Terry
is having had to go too far in his two fathers of substitution, Friendly and his brother Charley (Rod Steiger
) which forced to sacrifice his boxing career. By basing his themes into the drama of one man, Elia Kazan
sign a wonderful film, hard and lyrical. In 1980, Martin Scorsese offer a true reading of On the Waterfront with Raging Bull , history in black and white of a boxer in love with a blonde, too smart for him, and plunging into a decline because his brother mafia has rigged one of his matches ... Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro
) is a real double
Terry Malloy . The film ends with Brando's monologue
What happens with the "sweet " the winter? I did not make a message on the cake and its famous bean (be it a diamond, a machin, plastic or ceramic baby Jesus, nothing can replace the only true bean, the seed that had slipped past in this delicious cake and gave the name to the surprise that we seek in the middle of the cheese). And candied chestnuts, roasted chestnuts or log Chestnut what do you think? Not bad, but you know that these "are in fact chestnuts chestnuts: horrible confusion of language that penalizes the fruit of the chestnut ( Castanea sativa, family Fagaceae ) in favor of his cousin the brown.
Here's what I'm picking up for you: the fruit, a prickly shell which lies a seed (brown to serve to prepare candied chestnuts, flour ...) and this long sheet. you recognize them? They are the fruit and leaf of the chestnut in the winter.
Lots of good resolutions for the new year, to continue my botanical explorations, you discover plants and plant stories, crafts, museums and gardens and my Test!
