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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · 5d

The only mark made in this 1888 Grand Rapids, MI cookbook is a big X next to chili sauce.

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Zachary Lesser @zacharylesser.bsky.social · 8d

Kofta kebab recipe in England c. 1660. Amazing find!

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 8d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 28d

Among the best 209 seconds ever laid to wax

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Darondo - "Didn't I" [HQ - REMASTER]

YouTube video by Ubiquity Records

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Sep 8

Slightly diminishing a book:

Baron in the Bushes

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Sep 5

A few more large format Posadas and, to mix it up, one by the famously overshadowed (if such a thing is possible) Manuel Manilla who preceded and overlapped with Posada at A. Vanegas and may or may not have been the popularizer of the calavera.

Alfabeto Fisonomico

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Sta Teresa No 40, ca. 1899

26 illustrations of hand gestures, one of each letter.

La Caida de Madero….Ibis de Paz
Imprenta de A. Vanegas Arroyo, 2a Santa Teresa 43, Mexico (1913)

Broadside song regarding the Decena Trágica in February 1913 when Madero, the elected president, was overthrown. With a Posada engraved portrait of General Don Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio.

Juego de la Oca (Game of the Goose)

Boardgame with 63 squares illustrated with figures, calaveras, animals, etc

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Sta Teresa No 1, Mexico ca 1900-1910

15 ¾” x 11 ½”

Two copies, light wear in the blank margins, relief printing and type.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here's the whole thing 11x16, Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Mexico, 1905.

Large engraving by Jose Guadalupe Posada of San Antonio de Padua holding a child and a feather with a border.

Vignette illustration on verso with description of a miracle in San Luis de Potosi. Bit of worming in top margin visible. Crazy 3d shadow typesetting in bottom section

Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Sep 5

The use of a shadow typeface with a typo (I'm imagining they only had 2 Ns) in this 1905 José Guadalupe Posada broadside is so great.

vignette image of San Antonio de Padua with song about a miracle in San Lyuis Potosi with headlines and text in various serif fonts and a sans serif shadow typeface for "San Antoio de Padua" (sic).

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Grimod de La Reynière is funny because he discards mayonnaise (not a French word) and mahonaisse (Minorca has terrible food) and suggests bayonnaise as the proper word because they have good food there. And ham.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Jul 21

Nice shots of the shop in the background. The book there is Grimod de La Reynière's Manuel des amphitryons (Paris, 1808). I dug out Pliny's description of proto mayonnaise for the interview (from a 1559 Aldine ed), but it didn't make the cut.

$image of title page from \pliny's history - Aldus, 1559$ Image of title page from Grimod de La Reynière's Manual de Amphitryons, 1808, with image of a chicken being carved in midair.

Image of title page from Grimod de La Reynière's Manual de Amphitryons, 1808, with image of a chicken being carved in midair.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Jul 21

I was on @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social a couple weeks ago talking about mayo, where it really comes from and what it's really called.

finger pointing to possible names of mayonnaise in Grimod de la Reyniere's Manual de Amphitryons.

attractive middle-aged man reading from old book while interviewer looks on

image of an article on mayonnaise history from hilobrow.com

two seated men conducting interview in a rare book shop.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 22

Mostly smoke breaks, all those water cooler conversations about who shot JR. A lot of drinking at lunch.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 9

This one is funny - Posada was a indefatigable, critic of president/dictator Porfirio Diaz, but it often had to be subtle. Posada depicted people from every walk of life, but the only one who didn't look like a person was Diaz, here depicted as a lumpy guy with a dumb moustache and too much hat.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 9

A few famous ones, including Posada's contemporary/precursor Manuel Manilla's Calavera Tapatia.

Group of smaller engravings of calavera, soldiers, drinkers, musicians.

Calavera drinking tequila with a calavera woman over his shoulder.

Smaller calaveras - a bishop, a disembodies skull drinking, etc.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 9

Calavera running for office, conmen (or a cat dressed as a conman) ready to take advantage of drunks and dupes, predatory waitresses, dancing.

José Guadalupe Posada engraving of a skeleton beckoning to a Ku Klux Klan member with a burning corss standing amidst a pile of skulls.

Posada engraving depicting a group of calaveras running for office.

Calavera picturing a conman and waitresses in a field of skulls.

Skeletons dancing, drinking, frightening people. Corrido at the bottom.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 9

A few calavera - the first a great 18" x 13" (a little too big for my scanner) two sided flyer for an exhibition of Posada's work (no date ca. early 1960s)

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 8

I bet JG @hilobrow has a folder on the semiotics of iridescence somewhere.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 6

I assume it's an Easter/Easter Observed type of deal. Kids are never wrong about that sort of thing - making a note of it.

Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 4

earthquakes, jealousy, and lots of firing squads

Engraving picturing an earthquake in Chilapa in 1907 with people fleeing.

Engraving of a woman holding her head, story of Ramon Palma who visited crimes upon women of Mexico city in 1907 with his extreme jealousy.

Jesus Negrete is seated before his execution in this engraving.

Engraving of the firing squad of Rosalio Millan - Milan is up against the wall being fired upon.

Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 4

A lot of Posada's engravings were of current events: uprisings (in the Valle Nacional), rebellions (Veracruz 1912), floods, train derailments.

Engraving of a worker uprising in the Valle Nacional

View of Veracruz from the sea with a ship bombarding a fortress.

Engraving of a flood in Celaya with people drowning in foreground

Engraving of a train derailment - engine and bodies pictured.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 3

Booklet covers featuring demons, cookery, burros, and a classic calavera depicting ideas for dispatching presidential candidates. The burro booklet features the printing house of Antonio Vanegas depicted on the rear - he printed almost all of Posadas works.

Three panels of calaversa, the central wielding a leg bone - a satire on presidential politics.

Booklet cover with demon and some puritans.

Booklet cover with a clown riding a burro and the printer Antonio Vanegas depicted on the rear cover.

Booklet cover with a woman in a well appointed kitchen.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 3

It's just Sununus all the way down up there.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 3

Cataloging a big collection of José Guadalupe Posada broadsides and I'm going to throw some up here. First off: booklets full of embroidery patterns, "children's theater" pamphlets, a calavera on a recruiting mission to a cemetery.

Four pamphlets "Muestras para Borado" embroidery samples each with a seated woman on the cover embroidering.

Two fold out plates of embroidery samples incorprating plant elements.

Six covers of children's pamphlets from the Galeria del Teatro Infantil series. Five with people depicted on the covers along with city scenes, a demon, musicians, etc.

A calavera - an animated skeleton - in a graveyard apparently trying to convince other skeletons - many just skulls - to come along with him.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Apr 3

NJ, Philadelphia, NM. I'd like to see NH's pitch, not so sure about them.

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Pooka Mayo Booooooooooks @condimentking.bsky.social · Mar 21

Shocked this didn't catch on. (from the ads at rear of an 1875 copy of Wrinkles and Recipes from Scientific American)

Sheldon's Auxiliary Car Seat: engraving of men on a train, one sitting on an auxiliary seat that projects just in front of the other man's normal seat. Both have expressions suggesting they don't find this arrangement to be at all strange.

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