Reposted by Abbas Asaria
“My favourites are the servilletas in Bilbao’s Melilla y Fez, which carry an illustration of their famed pintxos morunos (grilled lamb skewers), since cleaning your oily fingers with a picture of the dish that caused the mess in the first place is a lovely touch” @abbas-asaria.bsky.social
theguardian.com
‘The beauty of the useless’: Spain’s super-thin restaurant napkins are throwaway art treasures
Forever flimsy and ineffective at cleaning greasy fingers, the servilletas of the Iberian peninsula resist the relentless ‘optimisation’ of our age. A new photo book recognises them as cultural treasu...