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Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

@DrAlakbarov

18 Sep

You can never go wrong with Pavlova cake. It looks good, it tastes good, it feels good after eating this.

Of course, my eternal fave cake is Black Forest gateau.

It even sounds better in Deutsch:

"Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte".

If you visit Eastern Europe, try Bird’s milk cake.

It's a sponge cake layered with a mousse filling that was born out of Soviet austerity. When food rationing went on a hiatus in the late 40s, these cakes began to appear on tables as a sign of burgeoning prosperity.

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Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

@DrAlakbarov

18 Sep

https://twitter.com/craigsdon/status/1439240958714040322

Good point.

On a very serious note, animals trigger similar neural pathways to the parent-baby bond, and reduce loneliness and depression.

It's actually increasingly recognised by researchers:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

https://twitter.com/craigsdon/status/1439240958714040322

Many hospitals and nursing homes now have animal therapy programs in place, including at the Mayo Clinic:

mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifest…

I welcome creative approaches to tackle depression.

Yes, it's not a magical formula but there are a lot of people who feel much better after pet therapy, aromatherapy, music and art therapy.

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Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

@DrAlakbarov

18 Sep

Thread. Vincent Van Gogh and Japan.

In 1888, Vincent van Gogh left Paris, where he had been living for a couple of years, and moved to Arles in Provence, in southern France.

Exhausted by his time in the metropolis, and eager to recover some self-composure, Van Gogh was seeking a simpler life that, he hoped, would revitalise both himself and his art.

He was also keen to establish a community of artists, and felt happy by the possibilities.

Interestingly, Van Gogh viewed his new surroundings through the prism of a new country: Japan.

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Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

@DrAlakbarov

18 Sep

If you ever visit Tokyo, you might come across this. So what is it?

The Kaminarimon (雷門, "Thunder Gate") is the outer of two large entrance gates that ultimately leads to the Sensō-ji in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan.

It stands 11.7 m tall, 11.4 m wide and covers an area of 69.3 m2.

The first gate was built in 941, but the current gate dates from 1960, after the previous gate was destroyed in a fire in 1865.

On the bottom of the huge lantern, you'll find the wooden carving of a dragon.

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Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

@DrAlakbarov

18 Sep

Thread. Brutalist architecture in North and South America.

Architect Clorindo Testa won the competition held by the now-extinct Bank of London and South America, for its venue in the financial district of Buenos Aires, between Recoleta and Bartolomé Mitra street.

Banco de Guatemala

This building was designed by architects José Montes Córdova and Raúl Minondo. Its most great aspects are without a doubt the East and West façades that are decorated with Mayan figures, created by Guatemalan artists Dagoberto Castañeda and Roberto Goyri.

The Tribunal de Contas, located in Sao Paulo, is a huge building designed by the firm Aflalo y Gasperini.

The artistic liberty of the building contrasts with the lack of civic liberties that Brazil was going through at that moment due to the dictatorship.

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