winosandfoodies

Foodie Photos Tokyo Japan circa 1991

I've been  taking photos of food long before blogging became popular. These photos were taken (on film)when I attended my friend Charle's wedding in Tokyo way back in 1991.

Beautiful spring blossoms were like snow on the ground.

When I first entered this noodle bar they wanted to seat me at a table upstairs. I asked to sit at the bar with the business men. I followed their lead and drank from my bowl.

 

Food cart in the park near my hotel.

Fruit in the department store basements. I was shocked at the price of the melons.

Food I had never seen before. Twenty years ago we didn't see Japanese food like this  in Australia or New Zealand.

Marbled beef. One evening we dined in a shabu shabu restaurant where this type of beef was served.

A good Don. It was interesting how this was labeled in English.

Monument. Nothing was explained in English so I do not know what this was about. Maybe someone can tell me.

I'd only been in Tokyo a couple of hours when I happened upon this lady who kindly allowed me to take her photo. 

Tokyo Tower. I went to the top but the day was overcast and Mt Fuji was not visible.

Sunday morning

A statue near my hotel.

Japanese garden where the wedding was held.

An aunt and cousin of Charles in their beautiful kimonos. There is a whole world of differences in Kimonos, based on whether you are married or single. Younger women's kimonos tend to be more elaborate than older women.

At Japanese weddings the guests are given a gift. The carrier bag holds my gift, a  lacquer bowl along with a beautifully packaged piece of wedding cake.

I think this might be the last pair of heels I owned. 

Weekend Lunch at Pintxo

Between chemo treatments I have a small window where food is okay.  This weekend is that window, so we popped down to Pintxo in Brunswick Street for the weekend lunch special.

Bryan chose the beef and pancetta bocadillo

 

............it comes with a beer

......I chose the Jamon Serrano and Manchego cheese..also with a beer

The perfect lunch at $15 each.

Still Life with Peaches, a Silver Goblet, Grapes, and Walnuts

 
....by Jean Simeon Chardin, curently on view at the Getty Centre Los Angeles, painted around 1759 - 1760.

This is the second of my art recreation series.

'In this small still life, Chardin portrayed a modest subject--three walnuts, four peaches, two bunches of grapes, and a pewter mug--but gave the objects monumentality by arranging them in pure geometric groupings and concentrating on their basic forms. He suggested the object's various textures and substances through the play of light across surfaces and successive applications of paint. In this way, Chardin conveyed the fuzzy skin of the peaches, the hard, brittle shell of the walnuts, the translucence of the grapes, and the heavy, cold exterior of the pewter mug.'  (quote from Getty Centre website)

Note the shapes  -  circles (peaches and grapes), ovals (walnuts), rectangles (the ledge), and a triangle (the stacked peaches). Although the shapes are flat ( two dimensional) they can create the illusion of three dimensions. As I don't have a pewter mug of this shape I made do with a glass covered in foil.