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What Fred wants to see | [See also: What Fred wants to read] and What Fred wants to hear] |
Over the intervening years I have compulsively collected many newspaper cuttings and quotes from books of any remotely interesting overseas places, sights or activities. These have been carelessly tossed into boxes together with any other newspaper cuttings, recipes or interesting scraps of paper - all with no organisation.
As I locate my scraps of travel-related paper over time, I intend to note them in this page. The aim is to avoid the situation where I find myself overseas again and unable to remember any ideas for things to see.
"[...] the head Elisabeth Frink did of me. It is very imperious, not much like me - suggesting a bull-necked Roman Emperor" -- 6 Feb 1995[More quotes from Alec Guinness, My Name Escapes Me - The Diary of a Retiring Actor]"I was caught out for a moment stumbling against Liz Frink's head of me which I hadn't seen for some years. It looked somehow smaller than I had remembered, and not quite so imperious but it is still grossly bull-necked. [...] An elderly man - well, nearly my age, did a slow double take when he saw me look at it, so I suppose there must be a likeness." -- 1 May 1996
[From Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow, Chapter 9, The Legacy of the Rotten Romans, p. 66]
Germany to open world's 'wurst' museum
A museum devoted to curry-flavoured sausage, a popular snack known to Germans as currywurst, is set to open early next year in Berlin.
It was in 1949, in the post-World War II ruins of western Berlin's Charlottenburg district, that snack stand owner Herta Heuwer first sold her patented curry sausages.
The delicacy is typically served smothered in ketchup dusted with curry powder and sliced into bite-sized chunks that are eaten with a wooden or plastic fork.
"Currywurst is simply cool," museum director Birgit Breloh said at a news conference adding she was confident the museum would attract 350,000 sausage-loving visitors every year.
The museum will also highlight the historic connections between currywurst and the German capital.
Odorama celebrates Italy's 'white diamonds'
Italy's warty white truffles, once aphrodisiacs for the ancient Romans and now the most expensive fungi in the world, are finally getting their own museum.
The tiny Tuscan village of San Giovanni d'Asso, one of the main producers of the "white diamonds of Italy", will throw open its doors on Italy's first truffle museum on Saturday.
"It's going to be more than a museum, it's going to be an assault on the senses," Enzo Francini, head of finances for the medieval town of 950 people, said.
A pharmacist, a botanist and a chef have been called in to help create the museum in a 13th century castle.
Exhibitions, videos and interactive programs will explain the history of the prized fungus and recreate the modern-day hunt for it.
But creators are most proud of the "odorama" exhibition, which will allow visitors to drink in the heady aromas of dozens of different kinds of truffles.
- Reuters
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