Affluent Savvy
Affluent Savvy
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'YELLOW' writes Michel Pastoreau in his book of the same name (Princeton University Press 2019) describing this bold colour's evolving place in art, religion, fashion, literature and science, 'was almost sacred in antiquity, a symbol of light, warmth and prosperity.
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Learn More »Julia recalls the dazzling yellow of chrysanthemums featuring in the Vietnamese spring festival, and returns to a chilly northern Europe for the mid-winter festival of Yuletide ‘YELLOW’ writes Michel Pastoreau in his book of the same name (Princeton University Press 2019) describing this bold colour’s evolving place in art, religion, fashion, literature and science, ‘was almost sacred in antiquity, a symbol of light, warmth and prosperity. Warm yellow recalls honey and gold, serving as a sign of pleasure and abundance. In Asia yellow has generally had a positive meaning.’ It was in Asia, in the south of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City, that I was witness to more yellow abundance, particularly floral, than I could previously ever have imagined. It was in February, during Tết, short for Tết Nguyên Đán, the Spring Festival which coincides with the Lunar New Year, the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết is when families reunite and feast, give gifts and parade noisily through the city to the thud of drumbeats and exploding fire crackers, dragon dancers interweaving the crowds. With flowers everywhere, yellow flowers whose gold colour, the colour of coinage, is symbolic of prosperity and good luck. The blossoms of the mai tree are out, creating spectacular clouds of yellow, their spiky branches often also adorned with baubles. (The mai, Ochna integerrima genus Ochna, family Ochnaceae is a small shrub believed to protect households from the ghosts of ill fortune.) Wandering the aisles of the city’s vast Ho Thi Ky flower market, I marvelled at stalls close-packed with the dazzling yellow chrysanthemums and miniature yellow-fruited kumquat trees which are purchased in pots from mid-December onwards for embellishing homes, businesses, temples, shrines and pagodas. Marigolds also feature (they symbolise longevity) but more evidently, as my photos show, it’s the chrysanthemum that’s favoured, its flowers often referred to as ‘yellow daisies.’ Symbol of life, chrysanthemums are believed to bring equilibrium to the household.
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Learn More »When he and Wang began collaborating on the book Recipes from the Garden of Contentment, Yuan demonstrated he clearly favoured classic food, prepared simply. He insisted the art of cookery began with the ingredients, claiming the chef could take credit for only 60 per cent of a banquet’s success, the rest deserved by whoever cultivated the ingredients or shopped for them. A speciality from the cookbook still famously popular? YANGSHENG Lake hairy crabs – cooked in the simplest fashion: steamed and served with a dipping sauce of ginger and vinegar. Today fishermen haul tons of these from the lake annually, testimony to the longevity of an intense Chinese appetite for the delicacy.
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Learn More »Saffron, believed to have originated in Iran, comes from the dried stigma of Crocus sativus. Poundedto an amber-yellow powder, this is used to dye fabric and season and colour food. From possibly as early as 2000 BC Phoenician traders from North Africa exchanged their saffron for Cornish tin and copper – a long-lived baking tradition thus established! Up to the 1890s Cornish-grown saffron was harvested at Penryn. Today the Cornish Saffron Company has revived cultivation on the Roseland Peninsula. Mail order supply is available at www.cornishsaffron.co.uk On www.delicious-cooking.com you’ll find the recipe for making your own Orange and Apricot Stollen with Saffron. Or, if in Penzance, try sourcing a marzipan-filled one from the deli counter at greengrocer Thornes. YUANMING, TAO "At the feet of the Eastern fence, I pick a chrysanthemum In the distance, detached and serene I see the Mountains of the South " Tao Yuanming (365 – 427) is remembered as one of China’s greatest poets and a noted recluse. A passionate admiration of the chrysanthemum flower (as per the quote above) characterises Yuanming’s verse. Born into an impoverished aristocratic family, Yuanming became a county magistrate but resigned from official life, repelled by its widespread corruption. Retiring to a village south of the Yangtze River, despite the hardships of a farmer’s life and frequent food shortages, he lived contentedly, writing poetry and relishing drinking the area’s wines, also a subject frequently featuring in his verse. A master of the five-word line, Yuanming’s lasting fame derives from his status as the first great poet of tianyuan ‘Fields and Gardens’ landscape poetry inspired by nature of a domestic kind such as that found in gardens, in backyards, and in the cultivated countryside (as opposed to the then-fashionable, grander-visioned shanshui ‘Mountains and Rivers’ poetry).
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