Landen Metz

Landen Metz

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Sugar, not fat, exposed as deadly villain in obesity epidemic

It's addictive and toxic, like a drug, and we need to wean ourselves off it, says US doctor 

Sugar – given to children by adults, lacing our breakfast cereals and a major part of our fizzy drinks – is the real villain in the obesity epidemic, and not fat as people used to think, according to a leading US doctor who is taking on governments and the food industry.

Dr Robert Lustig, who was this month in London and Oxford for a series of talks about his research, likens sugar to controlled drugs. Cocaine and heroin are deadly because they are addictive and toxic – and so is sugar, he says. "We need to wean ourselves off. We need to de-sweeten our lives. We need to make sugar a treat, not a diet staple," he said.

"The food industry has made it into a diet staple because they know when they do you buy more. This is their hook. If some unscrupulous cereal manufacturer went out and laced your breakfast cereal with morphine to get you to buy more, what would you think of that? They do it with sugar instead."

Read the full article here
(Sarah Boseley, health editor at The Guardian)

Karla Black

Karla Black

“For the 54th Venice Biennale, Karla Black amazes with a silent ballet of delicate pastel-coloured shapes which threaten to collapse under their powdery weight or to be swept away by the slightest breeze. The odd landscape reveals fields of plaster powder, make-up and clustered piles of floury paint, sugar paper topped with eye-shadow, ribbons and toothpaste. Polythene and sellotape sculptures are scattered about the pavilion with a package-like shiny transparency.

Black insists that her interest in the use of domestic materials lies in their physical properties and not in their narrative or symbolic connotations. The peculiar usage and industrial quantities of these familiar elements conjure a very unique presence and bring out previously unnoticed qualities. A precarious pile of sawdust with a perfectly flat top is echoed by a layered pyramid of topsoil or by the lofty lightness of a polystyrene volume evoking another multi-storey cake. Here and there unfurl floating crowns of colour-tinted cellophane and aerial structures of sugar paper. The walls, at times spattered with powdered paint and turf, are covered with soft colours, while in the background floats an omnipresent and distinctive smell of soap and cosmetics.” 

 -Marie Marie D’Elbée on her installation in the Scottish pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale
images via Modern Art and Claire Cottrell

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Claire Cottrell

Photo by Claire Cottrell

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.

From 'Last Night as I was Sleeping' by Antonio Machado.

Fly!

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Bee Lace

Lace fichu with pattern of bees. Needle lace worked in linen thread on a net ground. Made in Alençon, France, ca. 1805-1810
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Silence Of The Bees

If its important to you, you will find a way. If its not, you'll find an excuse.

Claire Cottral

Photos by Claire Cottral.

Tomás Libertíny

All by Thomás Libertiny

1. The Honeycomb Vase. ‘Made by bees’ (yellow edition), 2007. Beeswax. Collection MoMA New York. Photo: Raoul Kramer
2&3. The Unbearable Lightness. 2010. Beeswax, Stainless steel, Glass, Steel, Plastic, Resin. Photo: Jos Kottman
4. Vessel #2. 2011. beeswax, glass, alumnium. Photo: Studio Libertiny

Read some more about the artist here.

Alex Monroe

Alex Monroe Baby Bee necklace

from The Shiny Squirrel.

In My Heart

there are bees in my heart
bees in my chest
bees in my mouth
flying out
flying out
flying out

Anis Mojgani

Recipe: Codcakes in tomato sauce

Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin

 

I highly recommend you try this– and it's even tastier the day after. ottolenghi.co.uk

Serve with bulgar, rice, couscous or bread, alongside sautéed spinach or Swiss chard.
SERVES 4
white bread, crusts removed 3 slices
cod (sustainably sourced), halibut, hake or pollock fillet, skinless and boneless 600g
medium onion 1, finely chopped
garlic cloves 4, crushed
flat-leaf parsley 30g, finely chopped
coriander 30g, finely chopped
ground cumin 1 tbsp
salt 1 tsp
large free-range eggs 2, beaten
olive oil 4 tbsp
For the tomato sauce
olive oil 2 tbsp
ground cumin 1 tsp
sweet paprika ½ tsp
ground coriander 1 tsp
medium onion 1, chopped
white wine 125ml
chopped tomatoes 400g tin
red chilli 1, deseeded and finely chopped
garlic clove 1, crushed
caster sugar 2 tsp
mint leaves 2 tbsp, roughly chopped
salt and black pepper

First make the tomato sauce. Heat the olive oil in a very large frying pan for which you have a lid, and add the spices and onion. Cook for 8-10 minutes, until the onion is completely soft. Add the wine and simmer for 3 minutes. Add the tomatoes, chilli, garlic, sugar, ½ tsp of salt and some black pepper. Simmer for about 15 minutes, until quite thick, taste to adjust the seasoning and set aside.
While the sauce is cooking make the fish cakes. Place the bread in a food processor and blitz to form breadcrumbs. Chop up the fish very finely and place in a bowl with the bread and everything else, apart from the olive oil. Mix well and then, using your hands, shape the mixture into compact cakes, about 2cm thick and 8cm wide. The mixture should make 8 cakes. If they are very soft, refrigerate for 30 minutes to firm up. Heat up half the oil in a frying pan and sear the cakes for 3 minutes on each side, so they colour well.

Add the remaining oil as you fry the cakes. Place the seared cakes gently, side by side, in the tomato sauce. Add enough water to partially cover the cakes, about 200ml. Cover the pan with the lid and simmer on a very low heat for 15-20 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave the cakes to settle, uncovered, for at least 10 minutes before serving warm or at room temperature, sprinkled with mint.

From Jerusalem, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi

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Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

(Source: mpdrolet, via mociun)

Custom MOCIUN Ring- 1.53 caret naturally colored champagne diamond flanked by imperial topaz and old miner white diamonds set in 14K yellow gold.

Why We Breath

Sam Abell

Sam Abell images from here and here.
Watch how Sam Abell makes a photograph here.

vanitas vanitatum

All the Flowers of the Spring
Meet to perfume our burying:
These have but their growing prime,
And man does flourish but his time.
Survey our progresse from our birth—
We are set, we grow, we turne to earth.
Courts adieu, and all delights,
All bewitching appetites!
Sweetest Breath and clearest eye
Like perfumes goe out and dye;
And consequently this is done
As shadowes wait upon the Sunne.
Vaine the ambition of Kings
Who seeke by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.

John Webster, 1623.

p.s. Spring, please come soon...

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thought...

a moment of self compassion can change the course of your day!

jujumade

Leather and ceramics from jujumade. LOVE.

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Arctic call.

Check out my friend Mari's brilliant blog for more adventures...
marivalen.wordpress.com

(Foto: Mari Valen Høihjelle)