by rebecca on Friday, May 18, 2012 - 8:58 am
in art, bacon!
Things got kind of quiet on the meatblog as the end of the Spring semester got busy.
Then, someone (ahem) got the bright idea that we should create an exhibit of bacon photography. Then, all our free time went into cooking, photographing, and consuming bacon. Then, the rest of the preparations for Artomatic made things even busier.
We’re thrilled with the results of all our hard work and the reaction from preview audiences has been fantastic, so we can’t wait for the event to open tonight!
You can learn more about Artomatic and our bacon art here.
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by rebecca on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 12:10 pm
in bacon!
Over at Smithsonian.com, Maria Dolan’s The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine: The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?” was a fun read. I’ve had both of the books in the article on my wish list since I heard about that at the World Mummy Congress last year so I’m thrilled they’ve finally been published. The rest of Team Meat? Not so much.
Louise Noble, Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Richard Sugg, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians
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