Fri 31 Jan 2014
FRIDAY FINDS: A Few Finds for the Final Friday of January
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FF: Marinelli’s True Italian Pasta Sauce
My go-to comfort food, hands down, is good old fashioned pasta with red sauce. Add a great sauce like Marinelli’s True Italian Pasta Sauce and it is all the more comforting.
About Marinelli’s True Italian Pasta Sauce: “Marinelli’s sauces are all handmade in small batches from the very best available all natural ingredients – to create the real taste of true Italian pasta sauce – simply, the way it should be. To maintain this great taste, we only make 950 jars at a time for each flavor and we don’t add anything artificial – additives just don’t belong in a Marinelli’s True Italian Pasta Sauce.”
Marinelli’s True Italian Pasta Sauces are worth hunting for – find out more here.
FF: Photographer Matthew Rolston’s “Talking Heads, The Vent Haven Portraits”
I am charmed, and a little disturbed, by the photographs in Matthew Rolston’s book Talking Heads, The Vent Haven Portraits from Pointed Leaf Press.
About Talking Heads, The Vent Haven Portraits by Matthew Rolston: “Influential American celebrity photographer, director, and creative director Matthew Rolston turns his eye for portraiture to a new cast of characters with the launch of Talking Heads, The Vent Haven Portraits. Using techniques he has honed over decades of celebrity portraiture, and marking his first foray into the world of fine arts, Rolston has captured the inherent humanity of a rarely-seen collection of unique entertainment figures: ventriloquist dummies. Unearthed from the intimate and obscure Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, Rolston used a rigorously formal photographic approach to bring out the power in the faces of these figures through a series of 100 portraits, or ‘headshots.’”
FF: The Specialty Whiskeys of Jack Daniel’s
I’m not the biggest Jack Daniel’s fan – for me “Tennessee whiskey” has nothing on Kentucky bourbon – but I have to say the folks at JD have really stepped up their game with the fine Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel and the near-excellent Gentleman Jack.
About Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel: “The 94 proof whiskey is drawn from individual barrels, offering the opportunity to taste the subtle differences in nose, color and flavor from barrel to barrel.”
About Gentleman Jack: “The 80 proof whiskey is twice charcoal mellowed for smoothness.”
Fine more about all the specialty products for Jack Daniel’s here.
FF: The Cire Trudon: cires et bougies depuis 1643: Solis Rex Candle
If you want a candle that is a little more than what you pick up at your local mass retailer, you can’t go wrong with The Cire Trudon: cires et bougies depuis 1643: Solis Rex Candle available from MiN New York.
About The Cire Trudon: cires et bougies depuis 1643: Solis Rex Candle available from MiN New York: “Fragrance of the Mirror Gallery and the vast wooden floor of the Château de Versailles, vapours of wax, candelabras and palace. This kingly and solar perfume blends a green and wooded wake of coniferous trees to the sumptuous dizziness of incense with a light ray of citrus.”
See all the Cire Trudon candles available from MiN New York here.