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Still Life Stills Features ChocolateCocoa mass was used originally in Mesoamerica both as a beverage and as an ingredient in foods. Chocolate played a special role in both Maya and Aztec royal and religious events. Priests presented cacao seeds as offerings to the gods and served chocolate drinks during sacred ceremonies. All of the areas that were conquered by the Aztecs that grew cacao beans were ordered to pay them as a tax, or as the Aztecs called it, a "tribute".
The Europeans sweetened and fattened it by adding refined sugar and milk, two ingredients unknown to the Mexicans. By contrast, the Europeans never infused it into their general diet, but have compartmentalized its use to sweets and desserts. In the 19th century, Briton John Cadbury developed an emulsification process to make solid chocolate, creating the modern chocolate bar. Although cocoa is originally from the Americas, today Western Africa produces almost two-thirds of the world's cocoa, with Côte d'Ivoire growing almost half of it.
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Feature: Square Food and Etsy UpdatesMorning everyone

I have been making a few changes to my Etsy store today (what else is a girl to do when she keeps waking up at 3:30am!) My photos prints now have free combined shipping, which means if you buy 1 print or 10 prints you will only be paying for the shipping costs of 1 print. Also as i love and appreciate all the support from all of you watchers i am giving you a coupon code to use in my store to get 10% anything you buy so, after choosing your item(s) type in this code at the check out "10PERCENT1" to receive your discount

So come and check it out

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For some strange reason i love square food! So i have found some of the best square foods i could find on DA.
Enjoy!

Still Life Stills Features CoffeeCoffee is a slightly acidic (5.0-5.1 pH) brewed beverage with a strong flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa. Green (unroasted) coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world. Coffee can have a stimulating effect on humans due to its caffeine content. It is one of the most-consumed beverages in the world. ~~~ Info taken from Wiki, the whole article on Coffee can be found here
Enjoy!

Easter + Feature: MarchHappy Easter everyone. Hope you enjoy your day/weekend whether you celebrate or not. As for my family all we normally do is exchange eggs and have a family meal.
Here are some of the treats my kids have received this year so expect a lot of chocolate related treats to come just to use the stuff up!

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I have been very inactive these past few weeks due to illnesses hitting everyone in the house and such so this feature comprises all of the foods uploaded in the past month whilst i have been offline that has caught my eye for either it's creativity, photography, yumminess or all of the above.

Feature: Naughty but NiceFor some reason when making features i always make new collections with new photos but just realized i already have lots of existing collections with some wonderful things in that need to be shared.
Over the coming weeks i will be using these collections to make my features from. I will be sharing the best, not just from my food collections but from many categories on DA from anime to nature photos and beyond.
Also i will try and make features more frequently to make the most of my subscription. So far i am only featuring about once a week, now i will try and aim for two, maybe three if i have the time.
So lets begin with some naughty but nice snack time treats.

Feature: Best of the BestI love these pieces so much, they are the most breathtaking, epic pieces of art i have seen in my almost 8 years of being on DA! I hope you enjoy them as much as i do!

ETSY http://www.etsy.com/shop/claremanson
FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/claremanson

Still Life Stills Features: GreenThe word green is closely related to the Old English verb growan, "to grow". It is used to describe plants or the ocean. Sometimes it can also describe someone who is inexperienced, jealous, or sick. In the United States of America, green is a slang term for money, among other things.
Culturally, green has broad and sometimes contradictory meanings. In some cultures, green symbolizes hope and growth, while in others, it is associated with death, sickness, envy, or the devil, or both, depending on the context. The most common associations, however, are found in its ties to nature. Green is also associated with regeneration, fertility and rebirth for its connections to nature.
Full article at Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green

Feature: Food, food and more food? I love that people can be inspired by food for things other than eating! Jewelry, drawings, sculptures, so much fun can be had with the subject. Enjoy!

Feature: Crafty!I do apologize for my inactivity this past week, it has been a crazy one! I haven't even had a chance to bake anything as i have been so busy with the holidays, long bank holiday weekend and also my other half going away for 5 days for a music festival (of course the weather is really bad for him!) which he won't come back from until Monday.
Here are some of my favorite crafts on DA from cute figurines to scary lip balm!
Enjoy

Still Life Stills Features GlassGlass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.
The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica (SiO2) plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives. Often, the term glass is used in a restricted sense to refer to this specific use.
In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline (i.e., amorphous) structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers. For many applications (bottles, eyewear) polymer glasses (acrylic glass, polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate) are a lighter alternative to traditional silica glasses.
for the whole article on Wiki click

Feature: Easter Baking IdeasIt will soon be Easter and i am very excited. This is the first year i will be properly baking for the occasion. Last Easter i was stilling just getting into baking and had very little knowledge.
I don't know about you but i haven't decided what to bake yet so, here are some ideas for you (and me!) If you have any Easter/Spring goodies in your own galleries or know of any, please do share and i will add the best ones to this feature

Feature: The Wet Stuff + Still Life Week!For all you still life photographers and lovers out there head over to :iconprojecteducate: for Still Life Photography week! http://my.deviantart.com/messages/#/d4yz0vy
Project Educate is a great group, i have been following their articles for some time. I am always finding new genres to follow and some interesting info about the subjects but this week in particular is close to my heart!
For those of you you want to find out more about still life, not just food but the subject in general i highly recommend you check it out. It's going to be a great week for exposure of the subject, giving beginners and anyone striving to improve tips and advice and my favorite part? a Culinary Creations Still Life Photography Contest, so foodies keep your eyes peeled!
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I am fascinated by water, i love the sound, sight and even the smell of rain, waterfalls, water drops and such, a little odd consideri

Still Life Stills Features: PaperPaper, not as boring as you may think!
Origami, books, love notes, messages, the list goes on!

Feature: Ice CreamI have to admit i am not an ice cream fan at all! However it came 2nd in my latest poll of what sweet treat you would take to a desert island (chocolate being first but i do lots of chocolate filled features!) so here we go some of the most eye catching and mouth watering ice creams i could find.

ETSY http://www.etsy.com/shop/claremanson?ref

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FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/claremanson

Feature: Pancake DayTomorrow is Shrove Tuesday
Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Day) is the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. Shrove Tuesday is linked to Easter, so its date changes on an annual basis.
In most traditions the day is known for the eating of pancakes before the start of Lent. Pancakes are eaten as they are made out of the main foods available, sugar, fat, flour and eggs, whose consumption was traditionally restricted during the ritual fasting associated with Lent.
Above info taken from Wiki, for the full article here is the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday
This time of year in England all the supermarkets have isles dedicated to making pancakes. Ready made pancakes, pancake mixes, lemons, sugar, raisins and syrup (the usual toppings that are used here) Personally I am not really much of a pancake fan but searching through these photos is starting to change my mind.
Enjoy.

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Journal Entry: Wed Jul 18, 2012, 5:41 AM

Some yummy treats that have mostly been from my inbox recently that have really stood out either for it's photography, subject or as many of them do, both.
Enjoy.

2 headed snake cake (la serpe alata) by ~rosecake

In other news.
The summer holidays are about to begin here in the UK which means i will be busy trying to keep the peace between my kids who are like chalk and cheese. They have two very different personalities and clash very easily which makes for a very bad mix when i am trying to bake as my stress levels go through the roof very easily.
This means it will unlikely be uploading much food photography to my
gallery in that time unless i make anything quick and easy.

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