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New one: 27. Japanese Archimboldo Cabbage Headed Killer ( )

Don't ask how I did it, because it is obviously due to lack of coffee or perhaps just impending idiocy. I intended to add some more information onto the remaining clues I had but added them on to an older post instead of *here*. So if you want more clues, look back at post 50. This is sort of a real treasure hunt, I guess. Twists and unintended turns everywhere. Maybe I can pretend I meant to do it.

Yeah, the rubber bands. Heh. I used to have acreage and liked the idea of lambs. It was just those rubber bands that sort of flew through my dreams at night that made me decide to not do it. The Farmer's Market here (Blacksburg) has one vendor that sells beef (frozen cuts) from their farm. They do a good business. As you are further north towards DC (I imagine, anyway), with even more of the "foodie" type thing going on, I would imagine you could do fairly well at a Farmer's Market near you, with lamb. Might be worth a call to the management of the market(s) to see what their rules are, if you have enough to sell and are willing to give up some Saturdays or pay someone to cover the stand for you. I'd buy lamb if it were here at the market. There is a guy who runs one of the farms attached to the university who grows lambs, a flock of them each year. They're basically used to test different feeds and grasses. Each year he sells out, ahead of time, in the Fall. He just trucks them to one of the slaughterhouses nearby and the people pick them up "ready to go" from there. Maybe you should just have a big party with lots of roast lamb.

Yes! I'll have to work on refining my clue-writing. I would offer you a tisane as your prize, but probably it would have to be in a different cup.

The best source of information would be your County Agricultural Co-op Service person. They are fantastically knowledgeable and are a completely free service. You can find the phone # in the usual section that has government-type lists in the phone book. The downside is that often they can be very busy, particularly in the Spring and Fall. If you hit it right, you might get a visit to your place where you can chew the fat. Or so to speak Good luck. Oh. Get info ASAP about the young male lambs. They can be uh . . . "troublesome" if left to their own devices, I hear.

You are simply brilliant, dahlink. Here is the link: The Lobsterphone Where you can eat and talk at the same time. And it is subtitled "The Aphrodisiac Phone" so one can only image what else could happen. You win a lobster dinner, insomniac. I'll try to PM you a bit later (must run out now) with my own arcane method of posting links. It may confuse you further, though. Sigh. It took me some time to learn how, too.

Since I'm unsure of both my clue-writing skills and how popular these pieces might be, I'll keep trying to add more information. 1700's. Christies 2000. Three items in painting. All start with S. One is a sandwich. Silkscreen.

And that was a great job on 20. and 22.! I kept seeing a different scene, for each of the paintings described above. On the children and cat one I saw a little girl in a red dress in the style of "The Blue Boy" in the foreground of a long wooden banquet table filled with jolly people. One of those children that is painted as if they were a miniature adult, you know. The proportions of the painting were not exactly "true" but a bit stilted. The colors of the painting were fairly bright. I kept thinking "American" or "Renaissance". On the cat one, with the fish, I saw a close-up of a cat - a striped greyish cat, with a stripped-of-meat sole *almost* collected from the table in its teeth. The bones of the fish were clear and the cat was scrunched up ready to grab it and jump off the table. Well now. I have to wonder if these are figments of my imagination or not. They were very clear, if they were. Very "painterly" too. Heh. Aaargh.

Yep. Easy but classic, I thought.

Three more: 24. See no evil, Speak no evil, Hear no evil and a cohort dine on a ham (among other things) as the god of wine beams down upon them. 25. Pop! Goes my luncheonette meal. 26. My mom made it with milk and served it with grilled cheese sandwiches.

Oh. Plus it's very sexy. Saganaki, I mean. Almost forgot to add that.

Saganaki is most excellently philosophic and delightfully delicious at the same time.

Let me develop my clues a bit, too. 13. Thomas Edison meets half of a "Surf and Turf". and 23. A way to drink a tisane never dared look so unladylike. Except in the eyes of this one lady's rendering.

No, but it should be. Allegorically, not categorically, of course.

Here's another: 23. "Have a sip, it'll put hair on your chest."

I read somewhere recently that Theibaud had illustrated a somewhat recent edition of Brillat Savarin's book. That would be interesting to see. This is terrible, because I can vividly see both those pictures before me yet can not for the life of me remember the artist. This game has the potential of being more dangerous even, than trying to write limericks.

Not a Maine potato? Well at least I got the first letter right: M. Your refrigerator is not messy, yunnermeier. That is called "controlled chaos". It must be nice to be home. Yesterday here was Mother's Day, so please wish your mother a happy one (although just having you there makes for a Happy Mother's Day, I bet). Looking forward to learning more about the endless variety of food that is Malaysian.

Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? U-Bet-Cha. Richard Hamilton was on to something. Fer Shue-Er.

Totally missed Shaya's post on #4. Will just add another one to the same category, though. The Rubens' version titled the same.

Here is a clue for a work of art that can be #13 : Call me from the Maine shore.

Oh, no. Please. Find some more easy ones for I really can *not* do the more difficult ones.

Bumping this topic up again. Am hoping that someone has had a chance to peruse this volume and share their thoughts and feelings on the authors and pieces included . . .

Really, cake has not been the same for me since Wayne decided to have a go at it. The essence of cake is so, well, *cake-y* in his work that no real cake could ever taste as good. But who knows. You might be talking about a birthday hat. Or a birthday suit.

I didn't think of that! His last name even suited him, didn't it. It would be, judiu. It would be, and in any good story probably *should* be. But I know schlepping. I've done it, believe me, and there is a sense of melodrama attached to it. When you schlep you make sure people know about it. Eh. Abe just did it. He just took the stuff and carried it. But who knows, his companion may have been schlepping with *his* part of the stuff. I didn't think of that.

Apparently released on April 19, 2007. Here's the link to the book on Amazon. Recipes, too. I ran into the book at B&N today, or it ran into me. One way or the other, it came home with me. I am thrilled.