Art, Education and Chocolate Pear Bread

Days are too short recently. Months are too short. Last time I've check we still had August.. wait, is it really November now?
I am swamp with books, articles and notes. Finally art is becoming not only visual pleasure but also fetish for my brain. Battling with Panofsky is much pleasant with piece of moist cake and spicy chai.

  

Recipe found here, my version is a little bit different.

1 1/2 cup self rising flour

1/2 cup organic sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cinnamon

2 tbsp high quality cocoa

1 1/2 cup grated ripe peeled pears
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1/3 cup olive oil
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp fresh grated lemon zest
1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
2/3 cup chopped Brazilian nuts

Mix all dry ingredients in one bowl and wet in the other. Combine both and add nuts. Grease a loaf shaped tin, pour the mixture and stick into the oven preheated to £180C. It shouldn't take longer that 30-40 minutes to bake.
This cake is very moist and it even get moister after a while. Chocolate heaven!

Cooking and baking always make me think of textiles. Probably because tea towels are usually cutevand dinner looks best served on gorgeous table cloth...So to make long things short, it of course must relate somehow to art. Hauser & Writh now hosts Louise Bourgeois textile exhibition. One of my favourite artist, and I must say I did not know that she made all these stunning fabric paintings..