Illustration Friday - FLAVOUR
Most people seem to have a yearning for some of the foods and flavours of their childhood. I know that at times my Irish mother HAD to eat boiled bacon, cabbage and potatoes. As much of my childhood was spent in Fiji, I ate Indian and Fijian food regularly and that’s what I so often yearn to taste. I can fulfill my urges for Indian food relatively easily as there are so many shops that supply the raw materials and I’ve taught myself how to cook pretty authentic tasting Indian food. However the ethnic shops near me have yet to discover the delights of dalo, dalo leaves and duruka so I’ll just have to dream of the last time I tasted dalo, palusami and duruka in lolo.
As I don’t want to dwell any more on the foods I’ll probably never taste again, this picture is a celebration of what I can eat here in England – my breakfast – a perfect navel orange and a juicy pomegranate.
posted by Julie Oakley at Monday, January 02, 2006
20 Comments:
Okay, as I am stuttering through your dreams of dalo, palusami and duruka, all of which I have never heard of before, yet sound fascinating, I must say your drawing is exquisite. Your perspective or the keeping of it, is right on and love the line work. I love to try new foods, but there is nothing sweeter than a perfectly ripe naval orange!
This is so unique and mouth watering! Yummy colors and yummy subject. Beautiful.
erika
http://www.five3.com
The vibrant colors are awesome...and I can almost taste the oranges. Very nice!
yummy yummy looseness and energy in your food!
;)
Delicious story and illo
=)
I have a recipie for kokoda if you want it. The ingredients are quite easy to find in HK so must be in the UK. Talking of food, after 18 years here I still desperately miss Sainsburys.
Rachel
Lovely drawing!
MMMMM tasty illo!
that is a perfect brekkie! so lovely julie! very well done!!!
I really like the colors and ALL THAT white! Interesting how often we think of foods that were 'special.'
lovely illo!
This has real vibrancy!
Detlef
http://www.detlefjumpertz.com
so wonderful Julie, the delicious colors, spare line, so beautifully done!
Such beautiful fruit...lovely plate...marvelous technique! The colors are so bright, and the fruit looks so juicy.
beautiful & fresh!
Very appetising interpretation. One of my favourite meals when I was a child was boiled bacon, new potatos and runner beans, with lashings of butter on it! Really, really nice picture.
LOVELY and DELICIOUS-LOOKING food!!! YUM YUM!!!
painted pear just to elaborate palusami is parcels of dalo leaves (which dark green thin leaves slightly similar to spinach) filled with coconut cream, onions lemon seasoning and sometimes corned beef. Duruka is sometimes called the Fijian asparagus and lolo is coconut milk. Kokoda is a marinated raw fish dish.
erika, trisha, mustashrik, alison, ellen,cin, carla, kismet, lin, ratlion, valgalart, alina, kismet thanks for your kind comments - nothing like tasty food to get the illustration juices flowing
carla, painterwoman, detlef and cin, I used coloured charcoal over the original line drawing - great intense colour but the pigment smudges so easily and falls off the page, so it's essential to get a good scan of it before it changes
alexa that tea sounds good
rachel - sadly I don't think I could trust any of the fish suppliers round here to provide fresh enough fish
beautiful colors Julie!
What a wonderful illustration!
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