It helped having these pieces of meat on a stick. Kebab there meaning small pieces of meat. The word kebab, though, is older than the Ottomans, and possibly originated in Persia. In Turkish, ‘shees’ means sword and ‘kebab’ is lamb or mutton. I don’t know whether you can perceive what I can see, but can you imagine the enormity and magnitude of that breakthrough? A quantum leap in culinary history! It was literally the beginning of the sheesh kebab. The first recorded instance of food, namely grilled meat, on a stick is from Turkey, in 1377 - the early use of skewers. I started digging for information and it appears that by about 4000 BC, around the time we began farming and domesticating animals, and took to crafts such as pottery and weaving, the Chinese had already started eating and cooking with a single stick. It was almost like the small bites were meant to be on a stick, and that set me thinking: When was the stick first used for food? I mean, how far back does food on a stick go? That’s when I realised that hors d’oeuvres are nowadays served with the toothpicks in a little glass alongside, but not pre-pierced. Helen Stickler's film will be screened on Saturday at 8pm.I was at a party just the other day and as the starters started rolling in, I noticed that most of the little munchies had toothpicks stuck in them, so that the small shammi kebab, stuffed mushrooms, aloo tikkis and paneer chilli could all be deftly lifted off the salvers and popped into the mouth. Andre the Giant Has a Posse is at the Chamber of Pop Culture, The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London WC1 (0171-833 3644), Tuesday to Saturday till December 18. Though impressed by his enthusiasm, she claims, "It is a little annoying to hang out with him as he stops every two minutes to put up a stencil or a sticker. "Advertising is psychological vandalism in terms of having no choice about the images we see every day."įilm-maker Helen Stickler's 1995 film Andre the Giant Has a Posse is to be screened as part of the show. "I think people should think about what kind of vandalism exists at the moment," he says. The show's curator, Ian White, has no qualms about bringing Fairey to London in order to cover it with stickers and posters. Perhaps the capital's oddest arts venue, the gallery is in a former horse hospital tucked away in a mews behind Russell Square tube. He has been prosecuted in five American states and has already had a number of brushes with the Metropolitan Police since his arrival in Britain he's in London for an exhibition at the Chamber of Pop Culture. Fairey altered 13 billboard advertisements for the soft drink by adding a huge, sinister-looking image of Andre's head and leaving just the word "obey" visible from the original poster. His most ambitious project to date is his appropriation of Sprite's "Obey your thirst" campaign. There is, however, an anti-corporate angle to Fairey's work, and he has hijacked advertising billboards in order to post his own images. "It's got to have a sense of humour and a certain leeway for interpretation." This may, in part, explain its popularity in the US and the willingness of a band of helpers to get involved with the stickering. The Andre campaign is essentially about the marketing of nothing, and Fairey avoids giving his Giant a political agenda. ![]() ![]() "I saw this ad for wrestling - and this guy was so ugly, so funny-looking." I was looking through the newspaper to find a picture I could use to teach my friend how to make a paper-cut stencil," Fairey explains. "It was very whimsical, not thought-out at all. When the local newspaper started to run articles asking "Who is Andre the Giant?" he knew he was on to something.īut the choice of Andre was sheer accident. They wanted to know who the giant was they were waiting for a punchline. Fairey soon began to overhear people talking about the stickers in supermarket queues. When he made the first Andre sticker, in 1989, it was simply an in-joke directed at skateboarding gangs in his locale, who were starting to call their cliques "posses". Fairey estimates that he has manufactured almost 1.5m of the stickers, which bear the legend "Andre the Giant has a posse" alongside an image of the wrestler with his impressive vital statistics - "7ft 4in, 520lb".
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