© Gaia Son
Gaia Son
Sunbeam – Texas Best Bread – Flowers Baking Co – El Paso, TX – Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
Little Miss Sunbeam and the Sunbeam brand are owned by Quality Bakers of America, a baking cooperative. Flowers is one of 10 baking companies in the U.S. that franchises the right to market baked foods under the Sunbeam brand. Flowers and Sunbeam have been partners since 1944! – Flowers Foods Website
Gaia Son in the Ghardaïa Province- Algeria, March 2007
El Goléa – oasis town and commune – capital of El Ménia District, in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. © Gaia Son
This summer I spent a week with my friends Gaia Son (FAB’s Lowlands Correspondent) and her husband Bob Kovel (artiste extraordinaire) in Amersfoort, NL. One night Gaia showed me some of her photographs and I insisted on her curating some virtual exhibitions for the Fading Ad Blog. This first slideshow is of Son’s trip through the Ghardaïa Province in Algeria- located in The M’Zab Valley (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in the Sahara Desert and ending in Outoul in the south of Algeria.
Gaia Son with her Touareg Berber guides – photo by Louis Cador
Alsa – Entremets Flan – Bulgnéville, FR – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
http://natifs50-graulhet.wifeo.com/toujours-des-buvards-.php
An entremet (or entremets, from Old French, literally meaning “between servings”) is in modern French cuisine a small dish served between courses or simply a dessert. – Wikipedia
Early entremets usually consisted of nothing more complicated than frumenty, a type of grain porridge, colored with saffron or egg yolk. – Wikipedia – Uploaded by Peter Isotalo
Benedictine Liqueur Ad – Cambrai, FR – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son
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cropped © Gaia Son
Bénédictine is an herbal liqueur beverage developed by Alexandre Le Grand in the 19th century and produced in France. It is claimed that at the Benedictine Abbey of Fécamp in Normandy, monks had developed a medicinal aromatic herbal beverage which was produced until the abbey’s devastation during the French Revolution, but in fact Alexandre Le Grand invented the recipe himself, helped by a local chemist, and he told this story to connect the liqueur with the city history to increase sales. He began production under the trade name “Bénédictine”, using a bottle with an easily recognizable shape and label. The family eventually sold the company to Martini and Rossi, which was in turn bought by Bacardi. The recipe is a closely guarded trade secret, purportedly known to only three people at any given time. – Wikipedia
Minifix & Auchan – Hypermarche – Superstores – Cambrai, FR – Lowlands Correspondent, Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
© Gaia Son
Hypermarche Auchan © Gaia Son
Chez nous a MINIFIX – Cambrai-Escaudoeuvres – You can see the freshness!!! © Gaia Son
Auchan is the French version of Wal-Mart with one exception – quality. The food you can buy at Auchan in France, Spain and Italy rivals and surpasses the quality of the food you can get at a Balducci’s or Fairway anyday – hands-down. See below some of the phenomenal seafood you can get, not to mention (nor feature) some of the incredible cheeses, mushrooms and pastas (especially the ravioli and agnolotti) under the same roof where you can buy a front loader washing-machine or trendy red acid-washed jeans.
© Frank H. Jump
