Cee’s B&W Photo Challenge: Eat and drink

Three posts have lined up nicely and enabled my offering for today. Thank you.

First, Ishita posted a quote on Italophilia which, after almost three years living here, I can verify is nothing if not true:

Then I saw that Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge for this week is on the subject of food and beverage. It’s interesting to view black and white images of food because lack of colour tends to render familiar stuff inedible. My photos are not from Italy (except the first when amore made what they call prosciutto) but rather from my homeland, Slovenia. For some reason I seemed to focus on drinks. More information in captions.

As not a big lover of red meat, this actually looks better now.

The image of my childhood: the face of sun-spoilt Janževec wine (well, parents had guests over a lot), now in barrels – filed under “if you live long enough”. Slogan goes: “Since I am a tzar, I drink Spri-tzer!)

What one needs on a hot July day: jubilee booze, rosemary bread and cards. And air-conditioning.

Fish canteen and a glass of white, Portorož.

ŠpriCar advertised again, and the coffee served Bosnian style as I like it, in Daktari, Ljubljana.

Sarajevo beer in Das ist Walter, Ljubljana

And lastly, to balance it out , I just saw a post on My Food Odyssey about the book by Michael Pollan with the title “In Defense of Food” and the film based on it that answers the question “What shall I eat?” in a very straightforward, and catchy, fashion:

Eat food,
not too much,
mostly plants.

Lucky me. The beverages above are made from plants!

Photo: MM

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