A couple of meta-resources today. First, a handy database of botanical illustrations, with thanks to Mark Nesbitt of Kew for the tip:
Plantillustrations.org is a non-commercial website and will not trouble you with irritating advertisements or ask you for donations. It provides a searchable index so that you can easily find plant illustrations by using accepted or synonymous botanical names. The database is copyrighted but most illustrations can be used freely under the Creative Commons License. Please visit the website of the original contributors for further details. You can find them on the left side of the HD illustration page. If you want to use photographs please ask Max Antheunisse or contact Jan Koeman.
Second, a list of food museums from the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery:
Symposiasts and followers of our Facebook page responded enthusiastically when I asked about their favourite food museums. There is, in fact, a searchable online listing of some 1400 such museums compiled by Shirley Cherkasky and friends at http://foodhistorynews.com/directory.html.
But for the fun of it, here is a rather more selective listing of the ones that our symposiasts and Facebook followers came up with. Feel free to suggest others through your comments! My personal favourites are The Endangered Cake Museum and The Burnt Food Museum.
Yeah, I know. There goes your afternoon.
I’d like to see a Venn Diagram of which museums are on whose lists, and another one of how often museums are linked on individual lists.
But good to see The Butter Museum on the long list, not least because my latest effort at Eat This Podcast is A brief history of Irish butter.