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Our daily bread: a factory film

A film maker’s record of mechanised food production at an industrial scale

Posted bylucynewmanAugust 23, 2013Posted inMachines and processesTags:film, food, how it's made, photography, Salt, wheat

Sea salt, Portugese

Sea salt bought in a shop near the water front market in Lisbon. The shop had baskets of baccalau, dried and salted cod. The pieces are wide and long and cardboard stiff. I thought I spotted a bag of dry crackers for dipping in an on board fish stew. My interest started with the bookContinue reading “Sea salt, Portugese”

Posted bylucynewmanJune 9, 2011Posted inBread and other recipesTags:cod, Salt, sea

Bad Oyenhausen’s salty springs

Postcards from Bad Oeyhhausen, West Phalia. The pigs remembered in this fountain lead to the discovery of the thermal waters. As they wallowed in a muddy field, the farmer noticed a crust of salt on their backs. (The story reminds me of the cows who found epsom salts). The king set up a salt mine.Continue reading “Bad Oyenhausen’s salty springs”

Posted bylucynewmanFebruary 28, 2011Posted inThermal spasTags:animals, Salt

Epsom Salts

We found the well at the centre of a radiating development of low houses. It was enclosed in a newly designed monument and surrounded by lavender. This was the source of the famous Epsom Spa. Henry Wicker, a villager, was grazing his cows on the common during the very dry summer of 1618. He sawContinue reading “Epsom Salts”

Posted bylucynewmanJuly 26, 2010Posted inFashion, Health and Beauty, Thermal spasTags:Salt

Salt queues

Snow covered roads mean there are queues for salt at the salt mines.

Posted bylucynewmanDecember 22, 2009Posted inDiary, Landscape, rocks and treesTags:Salt

Archaeopteryx lithographica

A fossil, flat like a lithography print.

Posted bylucynewmanApril 8, 2009Posted inAnimal Kingdom, TechniquesTags:darwin, evolution, flat, Germany, print, Salt, water

Eye liner from Ancient Egypt

Part of the identity of the Ancient  Egyptian is the wearing of heavy dark make up around the eyes. New research adds another dimension to this.  It seems that the eye make up may have helped to prevent disease. Were the Egyptians aware of this? Cleopatra’s eye make-up ‘had health benefits’

Posted bylucynewmanMarch 15, 2009Posted inFashion, Health and Beauty, How we see history, Then and NowTags:Salt

‘Eaten salt together”

                    Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, author of The Human Story, suggests the average person has 100 friends, with a close five at the core. Aristotle said friends must have eaten salt together,  in other words, shared experiences.

Posted bylucynewmanMarch 3, 2009Posted inEverydayTags:diagrams, leisure, Prehistoric, Salt

Giant crocodile touring show

If you have 10,000 square feet, can accomodate a thirteen foot crate, 4 trucks over forty foot and have circulating security guards, you may be have a chance of staging the exhibit of the Super Croc.  This includes a flesh reconstruction, a super skeleton and the kind of  field tents used in the excavation. TheContinue reading “Giant crocodile touring show”

Posted bylucynewmanFebruary 17, 2009Posted inAnimal Kingdom, How we see historyTags:Prehistoric, Salt

Rock salt shortage

There is a shortage of rock salt. It is in great demand as councils battle to clear snow covered roads. Rock salt chandeliers in Wieliczka Salt Mine, Poland    

Posted bylucynewmanFebruary 5, 2009Posted inDiary, Landscape, rocks and treesTags:poland, Salt, seasonal

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