Mine being part of the history!

Mine being part of the history!
My entry of the Fringe Club's Memeory Capsule, City Festival 2006
Mongkok Time Capsule Project can be seen online at http://www.23hq.com/Memory_capsule/.
Being part of the Excavation Project, the Memory Capsule will prompt to be unveiled by the Fringe Club for their building's 200th birthday celebrations in 2090.

(See more details on What is the Fringe Club's Excavation and what is a Memory Capsule?)

魚魚魚魚

From Eskenazi Ltd. Yuan Fish Jar
Porcelain Jar
Yuan dynasty, mid 14th century
Height: 28.5cm

...The body of the vessel is boldly and freely painted with four different fish in a lotus pond, within double line borders. The most recognizable of the fish is the Chinese perch (also known as mandarin fish), with its mottled skin, spiky, bony dorsal fin and rounded tail. Its mouth is agape, revealing sharp, pointed teeth, as it spies for prey with large, round eyes. Three other fish, all members of the carp family, swim around the jar. Facing the Chinese perch is a plump fish, with a small head, fleshy lips, triangular dorsal fin and scales depicted by cross-hatching. The third fish, the common carp with its barbels, long scalloped dorsal fin and large scales, is painted with its tail twisted, as if swimming upwards. Opposite it, the fourth fish is depicted with triangular dorsal fin, thick fleshy lips slightly parted, overlapping curves to show scales, and bifurcated tail fin flicked slightly upwards...

魚滑無窮

野生桂魚兩食 (大頭菜蒸桂魚+魚塊炒蒜心)






大英博物館藏元代鱖魚青花瓷盤

鱖魚、鱖，俗稱花鯽魚、桂魚、季花魚等，學名Siniperca chuatsi，是中國特產的一種美味食用淡水魚，屬鱸形目、鮨科，體側上部呈青黃色或橄褐色，有許多不規則暗棕色或黑色斑點和斑塊，腹部灰白，背部隆起，口較大，下頜突出，背鰭一個，魚鱗細小、呈圓形，性凶猛，肉食性。鱖魚一般生活在靜水或緩流中，冬季往往游到深水越冬。鱖屬中最著名的是翹嘴鱖，其次是大眼鱖等。
唐朝人張志和有《漁歌子》雲：「西塞山前白鷺飛，桃花流水鱖魚肥。」

(擇自Wikipedia-鱖魚)

順德菜除了河鮮外，飯前涼菜銀稔、排骨陳村粉、和飯後的雙皮奶也別具特色的啊...

人面子, 銀稔 (Yanmin); 學名Dracontomelon duperreanum Pierre，直徑1.5厘米，果實扁球形，核上面具有五個卵形點，邊緣具小孔，故名；和豆豉、油鹽同蒸，可佐食。具消食，解毒作用。
人面子為常綠大型喬木，葉互生，羽狀復葉，小葉11－17片，小葉革質，長圓形，長圓狀披針形。圓錐花序頂生，花小，白色，花后結核果。人面子的樹冠高大，可作城市綠化樹種。人面子可生食，可腌制成人面醬。人面子入藥性平、味酸，可醒酒、解毒、治偏身風毒痒痛、喉痛等症。種子含油量高，又是油脂植物。

(擇自蔬菜、瓜類及生果的認識和揀選錦囊 等)

Last Day's CrossFoodPuzzle

開估~
1)杏仁餅
2)陳意齋伏苓薏米餅
3)燕窩糕

Q: 為什麼2)可算是一項?以乎不合Crossword Puzzle的玩法.
A:　這是薏米餅的造型跟包裝有關，

陳伏米
意苓餅
齋薏

小小方塊白雪雪的薏米餅，每塊都印上一個中文字，可拼成:「陳意齋伏苓薏米餅」．
6x2 的排列，上下兩層．算一算，可能有無數的配搭...





例子：

(上層)
陳伏
意苓
齋薏

(下層)
伏米
苓餅
齋薏

想繼續無聊的話，可看以下連結：
陳意齋 CHAN YEE JAI
陳意齋天上零食人間情

CrossFoodPuzzle

餅仁杏
陳伏米
意苓餅
齋薏米
燕窩糕

Mohammed Bah Abba and his Pot-in-Pot

* 慶祝winChan 第50篇貼, 隆重其事,
特呈獻 穆罕默德. 巴. 阿爸 先生的 "兜中兜",
為夏日消暑良伴, 不防DIY一個試試!

材料:
IKEA terracotta 花盆(或可到花墟選購)，大小各一
雨後濕潤的泥土
水果、或自製沙律 (yummy!)
--> 做法


Mohammed Bah Abba And His Pot-in-Pot
Extracted from Treehugger
August 4, 2006 07:30 AM - Warren McLaren, Sydney


So what’s modern+green about a couple of terracotta pots? Nothing and everything. The oldest known African earthenware has been found in Nigeria, so that ain’t exactly new. What does brings it up-to-date is the incredibly simple application of two pots, one inside another. Fill the space between the two with moist sand, and you have a most ingenious fridge. (That’s very modern if you live in one of the 90% of villages that don’t have electricity.) The water in the sand naturally migrates towards the outer pot, where it evaporates causing a temperature drop around the inner pot.* The principle is not new - we’ve mentioned the coolgardie safe before, as just one such rendering on the concept. No, what is remarkable here is that Nigerian teacher, Mohammed Bah Abba, did not merely reinvent the idea, he made it a reality for tens of thousands of impoverished Nigerian women and farmers. By setting up the local production facilities to provide the pot-in-pot for $2 (since lowered to just 40c), he allowed perishable food to extend their spoilage rate. “Eggplants, for example, stayed fresh for 27 days instead of three, and tomatoes and peppers lasted for three weeks or more. African spinach, which usually spoils after a day, remained edible after 12 days in the pot-in-pot.”
Being able to store crops, and family food, without need of electricity increased incomes and reduced levels of disease. In recognition for his part in bringing this amazing technology to people in need, Mohammed was awarded a $75,000 Rolex Award. Having funded the first 7,000 pots from his own purse, he now used the award funds to distribute a total of 91,795 pot-in-pots by 2005.
It was a simple idea, but one with massive repercussions. For example, young women who had to hawk food before it perished, now have the opportunity to attend school and gain an education. The downstream results of which are simply immeasurable. Mohammed has also been asked to consider “adapting his cooling device in Eritrea, where it could preserve insulin vials for diabetic patients in remote rural areas, India, Haiti and Honduras.” And he has been requested to facilitate workshops in Brazil. Already the pots performance has seen the Darfur’s Women’s Association for Earthenware Manufacturing produce their own version, known as a zeer pot, with resulting incomes for women increasing by 50%. So well worthy of being listed a Time magazine Invention of the Year (2001). Oh, and The Shell Award for Sustainable Development too.
As we keep saying around here, never believe that myth that one person cannot make a difference. We all affect the whole around us, Mohammed is but one example of how positive that change can be.
::Rolex Awards.
* Garrett Rueda, a student in California scientifically tested (PDF) the system, and found that the average temperature difference between the pots was a very significant 14°C (23.5°F) !

NEW LAND DISCOVERED!

Alex Hartley, Nymark (Undiscovered Island), 2005–2006, (detail)

Cape Farewell - raising awareness about climate change

Date: Monday, 20 Sept, 18:10 (CF2 time)
From: Alex Hartley
Subject: Excerpt from the journal of crew member Alex Hartley...
Attachments: 1 image.

NEW LAND DISCOVERED!

Excerpt from the journal of crew member Alex Hartley...

In the early evening of the 19th day of September, year of our Lord two thousand and four, we passed through the fast flowing narrow sound of Heleysundet. This tight passage separates the main island of Spitsbergen from its smaller neighbour Barentsøya. According to the pattern established over the last several days, we continued scouring the coastline for our ever-elusive quarry. Suddenly, on rounding the southern point of Bakanbukta, the cry went out...maps were checked, the compass consulted and a small expeditionary group was hastily assembled and subsequently dispatched in the support craft. Our small vessel headed towards the glacial edge of Sonklarbreen still unsure that our days of searching could have been so finely rewarded. Our goal had been to find a new island that had been revealed by the retreating glaciers and to claim it for our own. The island towards which we now sped exceeded all expectations. Roughly an hundred paces long, fifty wide, and fully thirty feet high. The terrain was largely muddy moraine holding many varieties of rock with its frozen clutches. We came across the nests of eider ducks, and several purple sandpipers were seen quickly departing. Our new island was surrounded by a beach on all sides, and could be circumnavigated on foot in roughly ten minutes. The geography of its interior was marvelously varied, with towering mountains (some higher than twenty feet). There were valleys and even a small frozen lake (a member of our group unkindly likened this to a pond, but little notice was taken of his comments). We surveyed the island taking longitude and latitude readings for all features and extremities. A cairn was built and in the age old style, a claim note was placed inside a tin-can and this in turn was inserted into the cairn. The note stated in both English and Norwegian notice of our claim on the newly revealed land. Upon our return to the mainland our new island will be charted and I will submit it for inclusion in all subsequent maps. The land will be named and registered. The name has not yet been finalised, but I feel the most obvious Alex HartleyLand may cause some ill feelings amongst my fellow crew members. Nothing has yet been ruled out; annexation, independence, tax haven, wild life sanctuary, short let holiday homes or time shares. Postcards will be printed and a major architectural competition will be launched. Engineers will be consulted as to how best to keep all the mud together and prevent any shrinkage of our island. On the morning of the twentieth we traversed the glacial edge in the Noorderlicht coming within an arm's distance of the towering blue face. Then, after breakfast, we turned our backs on our newly discovered territory and set sail for points south. It was with a heavy heart and a tear in my eye that I watched it disappear. This land so newly revealed, land which has lain below the crushing weight of the ice for thousands of years, land on which no human had ever stood. This new land, so freshly released, was indeed our land, and part of me was left behind there. Alex Hartley