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Art · Ethnography · Humour

The sixteenth-century Flemish painting "The Legend of the Baker of Eeklo" tells a diverting folk tale about the inhabitants of the town of Eeklo, dissatisfied with their faces or their wits, who turned to the local baker for correction

But for the correction to be made, the unsuccessful head first had to be severed from the body, washed, dusted with flour and basted with egg yolks, and then slid into the oven on a baker's peel. In the meantime, a cabbage head was set in place of