05-10-2016, 01:10 AM
(04-10-2016, 11:24 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.About the cheese...
Ellie is very good at finding visual analogies (not just similarities in shape but in function as well), so I thought about the comparison for a moment after smiling over it, and it crossed my mind that if you were drawing a commercial mold cheese (e.g., bleu cheese), it would probably be mottled, but if a piece of cheese goes moldy on its own, it often looks like this with the mold growing like a little forest along one surface. Even then I'm thinking hmmmm, plant section?, but then I remembered there's one "plant" that looks quite a bit like a blue mushroom, a blue mushroom is a fungus, and so is mold. Who knows, it may not be as head-scratching as it seems at first thought.
Well, there is cheese in Tacuinum Sanitatis... Also Pliny the Elder suggested that the cheese from Gaul tastes like medicine
By the way, does anybody know any historical examples of books with eyes on the cover ( before Harry Potter if possible) - any spell books or alchemy books with eyeballs that can explain the "Cookie Monster" on the cube?