[Sca-cooks] Period Street Food

Terri Morgan online2much at cox.net
Tue May 17 12:17:10 PDT 2011


> > In Spain, little old ladies sat on street corners with a charcoal
> > brazier heating a pot of oil. When a customer showed up, they'd
> > crack an egg into it and dish it up deep-fried. I tried it- it's
actually
> >  amazingly good. There's a painting, just OOP, of such a woman.

> Because I know *someone* is going to ask. . .
> That's "Old Woman Frying Eggs" by Velazquez:
> http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/v/velazque/01/0105vela.html

You know what I've always wondered each time I've seen that painting? How
did she serve the eggs to her customers?


Hrothny




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