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Yamal Cuisine

Traditional Yamal cuisine is an important part of national culture of Nenets, Khanty and Komi. Yamal is a hunting and fishing land so many dishes include meat, fowl and fish. Berries and mushrooms are also abundant; this accounts for the wealth of "gifts of the forests" on the Yamal table.

Nowadays, Yamal cuisine is renowned for diverse delicacies of Russian cuisine. Yamal hosts enjoy treating their guests with traditional Yamal cuisine and have hot tea which came to Yamal cuisine from Russia. Tea has become the national Yamal beverage, drunk to warm and soothe. Yamal is in northern Russia with frigid winters, so its cuisine should be nourishing to give the people energy to survive during the long winter time.

The essential component of Yamal cuisine is warm and hot dishes. Fresh fruits and vegetables are rarely used as they must be imported, as they are not grown in the tundra. The Yamal cuisine is associated with malosol and stroganina. Yamal cuisine has absorbed techniques from other regions. Yamal cuisine is based on reindeer meat and fish of the Yamal rivers, enriched with mushrooms and bread. (above picture is of the reindeer meat)

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The term Pet Tattoo relates to the act of tattooing directly onto animals, a common practice which is utilised within various different aspects of society. Pet Tattooing refers to the tattooing of animals for either cultural purposes, artistic means, animal identification or simply with personal aesthetic motives.

Wim Delvoye is a pig tattoo artist who is originally from Belgium, but relocated to China to avoid the EU's animal rights laws.[1] Wim Delvoye is known for tattooing 'pop culture' symbols directly onto live pigs, which he then exhibits them in galleries or on his Art Farm.[1] This is an unconventional form of pet tattooing, so has therefore provoked debate about the morality of this art form

The designs that Delvoye tattoos on pigs are heavily influenced by popular culture, for example, Louis Vuitton logos and cartoon characters.[6] Delvoye’s body of work titled Art Farm is one of his most well-known collections and is exhibited either as an installation of live pigs within a gallery setting, or just as flat pig skin wall hangings.[6] However, if one of the tattooed pigs pass away and are still completely intact, Delvoye stuffs the body and exhibits it as a sculpture.[1]

When Delvoye tattoos a live pig he sedates it, then applies Vaseline to its skin and shaves it. All tattooing is performed at Delvoye’s farm in China.[1] Delvoye confirms that he inflicts the least amount of pain possible on the pigs, and that they are “very spoiled” and taken good care of.[1] Because the pigs grow five to ten kilograms heavier every week, Delvoye’s group of tattoo artists work hard to constantly re-do and re-size the tattoos on the pigs. However, Delvoye’s aim is that the tattoos are ephemeral, growing naturally in conjunction with the pigs’ growth.[1]

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Melungeons (/məˈlʌndʒən/ mə-LUN-jən) is a term for numerous groups of people of the Southeastern United States who descend from European and Sub-Saharan African settlers.[1] Historically, the Melungeons were associated with settlements in the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia, which includes portions of East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and eastern Kentucky.

Tri-racial describes populations who claim to be of mixed European, African and Native American ancestry. Although there is no consensus on how many such groups exist, estimates range as high as 200.

According to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia incorporated into law in 1662, children born in the colonies were assigned the social status of their mother, regardless of their father's ethnicity or citizenship. This meant the children of enslaved African or African-American women were born into slavery. But it also meant the children of free white or mulatto women, even if fathered by enslaved African men, were born free.

The free descendants of such unions formed the majority of ancestors of the free families of color listed in the 1790 and 1810 US censuses. Early colonial Virginia was very much a "melting pot" of peoples, and before slavery hardened as a racial caste, white and black working-class people often lived and worked in close quarters and formed relationships and marriages.