Janette Speyer
@janettespeyer
#DigitalArtist #Photography #Flipboard #Surf. #Marketer by day and #Artist #Blogger by night. #FlipboardUserGroup founder. #Traveler, #FoodHistory lover.
Back in my muse city. Here’s a brand new piece A multiple-exposure abstract that blurs architecture, movement, and time, capturing the restless energy of New York as a living, breathing memory. #abstractart #art #digitalart #photoart #artmatters
A digital art image: Summer in New York. #digitalart #abstractart #art #artmatters #photoart
What do cornbread, grits, maple, and cedar plank salmon have in common? Their stories begin with Indigenous dishes that helped shape American food. #IndigenousFood #NativeAmericanHistory #CulinaryHistory #FoodCulture #FoodCultureBites Feed you curiosity at: foodculturebites.com/indigenous-d...
What does Al Capone and prohibition have to do with the American diet? Discover the intricate world of the mob and speakeasy’s and how they influenced how we dine today #foodhistory #foodculture #history #FoodCultureBites Feed your curiosity at: foodculturebites.com/what-did-al-...
Grocery tourism is the growing travel trend of exploring local supermarkets abroad. Discover what shopping carts reveal about culture, food, and everyday life. #grocerytourism #traveltrend #Foodculture #FoodCultureBites foodculturebites.com/what-is-groc...
Did you eat your fiber today? Your great grandmother never thought about it. She just ate rye bread, beans, and peas. Industrialized foods started digestive problems. In 1960s Dr. Burkitt, rediscovered fiber. #FiberMaxxing #FoodHistory #GutHealth foodculturebites.com/fiber-become...
A goat herder in 9th-century Ethiopia noticed his goats wouldn’t stop bouncing after eating some red berries. He tried them and coffee was born. #coffee, #foodculture, #foodhistory, #foodculturebites, #coffeeculture foodculturebites.com/coffee-cultu...
Honey cake, baklava, and rice pudding are living history. They didn't need refined sugar to become classics. Discover how these timeless desserts survived thousands of years and what they reveal about history and culture. #Foodculture #FoodCultureBites #AncientDesserts, #dessert
Grocery tourism is the growing travel trend of exploring local supermarkets abroad. Discover what shopping carts reveal about culture, food, and everyday life. #grocerytourism #traveltrend #Foodculture #FoodCultureBites foodculturebites.com/what-is-groc...
If you went to the Moon, what would be on the menu? The story of food in space is a fascinating journey of innovation and survival. The quest to feed astronauts has come a long way. #SpaceFood #FoodHistory #SpaceExploration #NASA #FoodCulture #AstronautLife foodculturebites.com/the-history-...
Today, smoked salmon is the centerpiece of every brunch. But before we even knew about it, Indigenous peoples from the Pacific Northwest and early Scandinavians smoked salmon. They used wood fires for one reason: to keep it from spoiling through long winters. foodculturebites.com/smoked-salmo...
Yogurt was helping survival before probiotics were even a concept. Nomads discovered that fermented milk lasted longer, and stayed edible. So how did an accident of fermentation shape food cultures? foodculturebites.com/yogurt-and-s... #FoodHistory #FoodCulture #Yogurt #AncientFood #GutHealth
You know Thomas Jefferson. But have you heard of James Hemings, the forgotten chef? His story is one of many hidden behind the foods we love. Discover the influential forgotten chefs. #FoodHistory #BlackHistory #CulinaryHistory #FoodCulture foodculturebites.com/forgotten-ch...
I photographed a building in Manhattan, then layered, distorted, and filtered my shots until the stone began to bloom. This is photo compositing, where photography leans into painting. But really, it’s New York the way my memory keeps it. #PhotoCompositing #MixedMediaPhotography #digitalart #NYCArt
I eat avocados almost every day, but I had no idea they had survived since the Ice Age. Scientists believe giant prehistoric animals once helped spread avocado seeds. So how did the fruit survive after those animals disappeared? The answer may surprise you. #FoodCulture #FoosHistory #Avocados #Food
What’s your favorite sushi style? Everyone knows sushi. But how many of us know its historical story? Sushi began as a way to preserve fish and eventually became one of the world’s most well known foods #FoodHistory #FoodCulture #Sushi #JapaneseFood #History foodculturebites.com/sushi-a-hist...
I created this from 3 photographs, then layered, altered, and color-manipulated in Photoshop, this piece explores a place, and perception. The result is less a photograph than a visual conversation between architecture, texture, and light. #photomanipulation #photoart #art #digitalart #abstractart
Do you think eating pigeon is strange? Americans once ate robin pie. Explore the surprising world of birds beyond chicken and the cultures that put them on the menu. #FoodCultureBites #FoodHistory #Foodculture #Fowl foodculturebites.com/birds-of-a-d...
We think ancient food culture was primitive. Archaeologists just proved otherwise. These forgotten cuisines reveal how much culinary knowledge the world almost lost forever. #FoodHistory #ancientRecipes, #FoodCultureBites #AncientFoodCultures foodculturebites.com/ancient-food...
The largest empire in history was built on a hidden food strategy. Genghis Khan’s army survived on high-protein, ultra-portable rations allowing them to move faster than their enemies. #History #FoodHistory #GenghisKhan #Mongols #Foodculture foodculturebites.com/the-hidden-f...
Here’s a taste of my childhood. The Venezuelan arepa’s history, started with indigenous origins to modern stuffed variations. Find out how the arepa is a symbol of Venezuelan culture and identity. #foodculture #foodculturebites #foodhistory #VenezuelanCuisine foodculturebites.com/the-mighty-a...
Some art doesn’t tell a story directly. It makes you feel displacement, longing, reinvention, memory, and belonging all at once. That’s what makes abstract migrant art so powerful to me. #AbstractArt #MigrantVisions #ArtAndIdentity #ContemporaryCulture
And finally here’s the Flatiron building all dressed up and ready to go! This iconic Building is part of the story of old New York, a city built by immigrants, artists, and dreamers chasing something bigger than themselves. #MigrantVisions #newyork #digitalart #urbanart #abstractart
What happens when a city stops behaving like a place and starts acting like a memory? #MigrantVisions #DigitalArt #UrbanArt #Photographyart
Smoked salmon may be the main attraction at brunch and cocktail parties. It wasn’t always so fancy. A simple preservation method, has evolved this delicacy into one of the world's most iconic luxury foods. #FoodCultureBites #foodhistory #Foodculture #SmokedSalmon foodculturebites.com/smoked-salmo...
Many of us carry different places inside us. Cities, countries we’ve loved, left, and never quite stopped living in. I don’t photograph cities. I paint what it means to carry them. #MigrantVision #digitalart #mixedmedia
There is good news and bad news here. The good news...Most AI platforms quote my work, and the bad news...Well, I sometimes don't have all the answers. #FlipboardUserGroup, #Flipboard, #SurfFeeds, #bloggingtips
I created those Digital Art pieces a few years ago. These represent digital surrealism with layered photographic abstraction. Experimental mixed-media digital compositions. #art #artmatters #digitalart #abstractart #urbanart