04/09/2020
Treats being made at Sabor a España in Málaga! 🇪🇸
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03/09/2020
Walking down the Muelle Uno in Málaga 🇪🇸, we met Verónica. Her and her husband operate Tierra Cocida, a company specializing in the production and sale of ceramic products.
Verónica had on display a mosaic of ceramic plates and bowls that can be used to grate produce. Her husband, Manuel, was classically trained in a prestigious Spanish artisan school and raised in Sevilla, a city known for pottery-making. “We’ve been selling ceramics for two years,” She told Andrew Schiestel. “My husband has been a potter much longer than that. He used to instruct others. But now we run this business.”
Originally from Málaga, Verónica has travelled abroad including working in Vancouver, Canada, for one year before returning to her providence of Málaga. The two met at a wedding and would marry, raise a family, and begin living and producing their pottery from their home nested in the mountains that surround Málaga.
Tierra Cocida, in English, means Cooked Earth. Simply a fitting name.
To read the full story - https://ithacabound.com/blogs/blog/the-flare-of-spain-on-a-plate-tierra-cocida. 🇪🇸
31/08/2020
A Saturday nightscape of Sacromonte Sacromonte and Albaicín, Andalusia, Spain, taken from a mountain slope in the City of Granada, minutes away from the Alhambra. The prominent white building at the top of Albaicín is the Tower of San Lorenzo.
23/08/2020
A photo of a gothic lantern.
This photo was taken last night on a mountain slope in the northern edge of the City of Granada, dusk completing, the moon peeking, with the High Court Justice of Andalucía building illustriously in the background.
23/08/2020
A prescribed burn in a farm field in Andalusia.
19/08/2020
Earlier this month we met French artist Joffrey Lassiege on the Rua Das Flores in Porto. Initially born in a small commune in southern France, eight years ago he began travelling abroad, and two years ago he began drawing for a living.
As you peer into his ink-drawings, you see a deep level of sophistication—much of his work displays intricate labyrinths marching their way around the protagonist in the given piece.
“Is there a common denominator to your art?” Andrew Schiestel asked him.
“No, but I’m building something. There is a lot of nature to my art. One day I’d like it to become a story. It is evolving over time.”
Joffrey is quintessentially peripatetic. He spends his summers in Porto citing its nice climate. Last winter he split his time between Sweden and Spain. In Spain he volunteered at a zoo. He even once spent eight months in Australia. “I picked Watermelons. And I enjoyed it to!” Joffrey told us with a chuckle, reflecting on his time Down Under.
You can read the full story here - https://ithacabound.com/blogs/blog/letting-your-art-unfold-joffrey-lassiege
12/08/2020
A field in Andalusia. 🇪🇸
10/08/2020
This is João and his mother Fátima. The two, along with Fátima's husband and João's father by the same name, own and operate Porto-based MUD - Manufacture Under Design. The family makes a myriad of products that combine practical quality with visual pleasure.
One day Fátima's curiosity got the best of her: She chiseled a hole in the wall at the back of the store so that she could view what was on the other side. What she discovered was a dormant section of the building that was once a monastery originally from the 13th century. The family and landlord cleaned out the debris, tidied up the area, and today it's used to show off another interesting product line that the family constructs: Oak and birch wood electric and non-electric bicycles.
MUD's tagline is "A handmade portuguese tale"; fitting for the company and this wonderful family. To read the full story - https://ithacabound.com/blogs/blog/the-story-of-mud-a-handmade-portuguese-tale.
09/08/2020
In the Lisboa district of Belém lies a café called Pastéis de Belém. Legend has it that Domingos Rafael Alves, the original founder in 1837, either purchased the recipe or employed the monk who invented the Pastel de Nata (the globally popular Portuguese egg tart pastry). With the current pandemic Pastéis de Belém is limiting customers in their two-storey restaurant to 40 at a time but are still relentlessly churning delicious pastéis de nata.
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02/08/2020
Not the only dish invented in Porto but likely the most popular, the Francesinha is a Portuguese sandwich commonly constructed with bread, ham, sausage, steak, melted cheese, and bathed in a sauce that’s usually homemade at the restaurant and commonly accompanied with french fries. There’s no universal recipe for the distinctive sauce with restaurants throughout Porto hanging onto their own secret recipes—the only common ingredients appear to be tomato sauce and beer.
This photo was taken on a street patio at Casa Guedes in uptown Porto. As depicted, this Francesinha is topped off with um ovo (an egg).
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02/08/2020
An afternoon snack in Porto. Pastel de Nata is an egg tart pastry dusted with cinnamon that catholic monks invented in Lisbon in the 18th century. Since then it has become popular globally including in South American and Asian cuisines. This particular Pastel de Nata is apple-flavoured, perforated with a cinnamon stick. In the background is a shot of espresso by Delta Cafés, a Portuguese-based coffee roaster.
20/06/2020
Map of Ithaque (cartography, 1900) with Ithaka poem (Ithacabound.com/Ithaka-poem) framed in the background.
11/06/2020
The legendary poem, Ithaka by C.P. Cavafy (edited by George Savidis; translated by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard), is now available for purchase at Ithacabound.com/ithaka-poem. 15 1/2" x 33 1/2", float-mounted.
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