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Chicken and Waffles
Nov. 20th, 2011 09:13 amI had the best-ever incarnation of chicken and waffles yesterday-- light little triangles of sweet potato waffle, topped with chicken and mushrooms in a cream sauce with basil. Amazing. It was a daily special here. The pear-ginger-hazelnut tart was pretty amazing, too.
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Went to the preview for the new Rembrandt exhibit at the DIA. In a nutshell, it traces Rembrandt's portrayal of Jesus over the years, from the very generic "awesome cool dude with streaming reddish-blond hair" to this portrait where he apparently used a young Sephardic man from the local ghetto as his model. There's a lot more to it than that, of course, but the introductory lecture promised a discussion of how Rembrandt influenced later works, and never covered it at all. It did cover how Caravaggio influenced Rembrandt, though. <3 Caravaggio.
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After the lecture, we attended a harpsichord recital in the museum; Edward Parmentier from U of M played on a reproduction of a spinet harpsichord based on an original that dates from about 1600. It was of the "mother with child" variety where the player can set the smaller keyboard atop the first for a double-player effect. Wonderful, and you're not likely to come across an instrument like that too often.
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Then we went to the Detroit Revealed exhibition; it was solid, but the accompanying book was pretty scanty and offered no new perspective to the works, so we didn't buy that. The photos Carlos Diaz took of the gardens of Latino residents of Southwest Detroit made me happy. There wasn't much else in that exhibit to make anyone happy, except maybe the recorded interviews with some kids from Chadsey High. But those interviews were from '03, so I wonder how the kids are doing these days.
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Went to the preview for the new Rembrandt exhibit at the DIA. In a nutshell, it traces Rembrandt's portrayal of Jesus over the years, from the very generic "awesome cool dude with streaming reddish-blond hair" to this portrait where he apparently used a young Sephardic man from the local ghetto as his model. There's a lot more to it than that, of course, but the introductory lecture promised a discussion of how Rembrandt influenced later works, and never covered it at all. It did cover how Caravaggio influenced Rembrandt, though. <3 Caravaggio.
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After the lecture, we attended a harpsichord recital in the museum; Edward Parmentier from U of M played on a reproduction of a spinet harpsichord based on an original that dates from about 1600. It was of the "mother with child" variety where the player can set the smaller keyboard atop the first for a double-player effect. Wonderful, and you're not likely to come across an instrument like that too often.
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Then we went to the Detroit Revealed exhibition; it was solid, but the accompanying book was pretty scanty and offered no new perspective to the works, so we didn't buy that. The photos Carlos Diaz took of the gardens of Latino residents of Southwest Detroit made me happy. There wasn't much else in that exhibit to make anyone happy, except maybe the recorded interviews with some kids from Chadsey High. But those interviews were from '03, so I wonder how the kids are doing these days.
