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New HD Video of Vivian Reiss, interviewed in her garden
Posted in art, food, gardens, recipes, thought, travel, urban farming
Tagged amaranth, broom corn, candied rose petals, garden, interview, toronto, urban farming, video, vimeo, vivian reiss
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Getting to The Root of the Matter, How Deep Are Your Roots?
If you think; ” a new broom sweeps clean,” is a refreshing adage, you have no idea of how the concept of getting to the root of my garden’s suffocation and plague is rejuvenating. After all, a new broom is only sweeping away … Continue reading
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Tagged beets and horseradish, horseradish, horseradish root system, Hungarian cucumber salad, mandolin, Passover, roots, triple mix soil, uborkasalata, weeds, yellow beets
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Tomato Panic or Red Alert [or yellow, purple, white, pink or maybe, striped alert]
Last week I had a tomato panic. I found out that Doris Giardino, who grew my beautiful heritage tomato seedlings for my www.124merton.com rooftop garden, was not growing them again this year. What would become of the annual tomato tasting? … Continue reading
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Tagged ake hopatcong, Anna Russian, baked beans, beefsteak, Campari Tomato, giant belgium, heirloom tomatoes, heritage tomatoes, Kumari Tomato, l, lake hopatcong, new jersey beefsteak, paul robeson tomato, red fig.stupice, rooftop garden, Speckled Peach, Tesco, tomato tasting, urban farming, Wapiscon Peach
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Vivian Ssier Painter
If only I had a last name that sounded fabulous spelled backwards. Arnold Issacs had such luck. In 1954 he was commissioned to create 10 dresses for a General Motors magazine ad. He charged $1,000 per dress, a vast sum … Continue reading
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Tagged arnold issacs, cafe boulud, fides krucker, museum of fine arts boston, nursing diva, palm beach, portrait, scassi
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Flora and Fauna, US VI
I didn’t manage to capture the dolphins dancing and playing for us in the bay below our house but did capture the hummingbirds feeding on the cactus flowers. Here is a photo gallery of some of the wild goats ,chickens , donkeys ,insects, … Continue reading
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Toronto Star Article “Artist in Residence: Vivian Reiss”
New article on me in the Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/article/932594–artist-in-residence-vivian-reiss Artist in Residence: Vivian Reiss – thestar.com Outside, it is your standard, upscale red brick Annex house. Inside, it could be the domicile of the love child of Scheherazade and Salvador … Continue reading
Ground Provisions, St. John US VI
Buying groceries at the local supermarket named Starfish, I was also perusing the aisles for local fare. The only thing I came up with were basketful’s of tubers; tania, local sweet potatoes and yams. They were positioned in baskets next to several varieties of potatoes. … Continue reading
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Tagged old bay seasoning, Starfish, starfish market, sweet potato, tania, yams
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The Birthday; A Delight At Any Age
Touring Hungary, several years ago, I had to laugh as we passed Lake Balaton. Even being used to flowery Hungarian exaggerations, the fact that Hungary is a landlocked nation, and that Lake Balaton is the largest lake in central Europe, Balaton, didn’t seem to be “the … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 spice, crstal cruise, duck breast, fort tryon park, hudson river, kale, lake balaton, new leaf cafe, palm beach, romanesco, scott campbell, sea horse, seahorse
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Happy Chanukah, the latke mobile menorah
Years ago, I went to a garage sale and loaded a cardboard box with old kitchen gadgets, pots, pans and even an old oil tin from the basement of the sale. When I arrived home, I noticed that the muffin tin … Continue reading
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Tagged Chanukah, chanukah recipe, cooking, food, HANNUKAH RECIPE, hungarian chanukah recipe, langos, latke, maple syrup, menorah, recipes, star of david, star of david cookie cutter
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Bull’s Blood Beets
I planted several varieties of beets in my garden including, “Golden, Early Wonder, Flat of Egypt and Chioggio.” They range from the lovely pale anemic beet, “Albino”, to the “Bull’s Blood” beet that bleeds a healthy iron red from the moment I cut the … Continue reading
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Tagged albino beets, amaranth, beet salad, brined pickles, bull's blood beets, bull's blood wine, chiogga beets, egri bikaver wine, golden beets, hazelnuts, meatballs
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In a circular line, it all comes back
It was announced that for the first time in years the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks were to displayed in the Hudson River. The last time I had seen them over the Hudson, was in the year of my sixth grade graduation. I … Continue reading
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Tagged 137 Riverside Drive, Circle Cruise Line Manhattan, Circle line, culinary chronicles, culinary historians of Canada, hops, irving garten, Macy's fireworks; 4th of July, rooftop, rooftop vegetable garden, urban farming, urban farming pioneer, William Randolph Hearst
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Cotton is High!
The world price of cotton in October of 2009 was 66 cents per pound. By October of this year, the price of cotton had risen to $1.26 per pound.The price of cotton had risen dramatically in the past year and that was the … Continue reading
Jason Berger
Today, I received the sad news that my mentor and teacher Jason Berger passed away. A master of linguistict puns, he taught me that paintings contain visual puns and visual double entendres. His innate exuberance matched mine, even though, in the … Continue reading
Canadian’s Environmental Satisfaction
Who would have thought that me and my rooftop garden would become the Poster Garden and Girl for Canadian’s evironmental satisfaction?http://www.canada.com/health/Local+environments+viewed+favourably+Canadians+despite+broader+concerns+Survey/3687326/story.html Congratulation to the lucky tenants at www.124merton.com
Summer Squash:Liquid Sunshine
Several years ago I put on an event at my gallery www.vreissgallery.com called ” The Neuroscience of Molecular Gastronomy” http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22neuroscience+of+Molecular%22&hl=en&sitesearch=# http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=%22neuroscience+of+Molecular%22&hl=en&sitesearch=# It was a collaboration with my daughter, Ariel Garten ,who lectured about how we perceive taste and art through our senses and the history … Continue reading
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Tagged aeration, fizzalator, foam, molecular gastronomy, neuroscience, reiss gallery, shitake, truffle, winterlicious
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On the Boulevard: My Front Chard
One of the most beautiful, healthy and delicious parts of my garden is my “front chard”. It grows between the sidewalk and the road on a patch about 140 square feet ,which is about the size of a large Tokyo apartment or … Continue reading
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Summer Squash: Sunshine
In the third quarter of July, I noticed a little empty space in the garden leading to the house. It was a stubborn piece of earth. In that spot, I had tried several times to germinate watermelon seeds and seeds from particularly … Continue reading
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“Living in Full Color” in Today’s Toronto Star by Vanessa Lu
Living in full colour On a tree-lined street in the Annex, passersby are struck by giant corn stalks, just part of a whimsical, colourful garden that’s the brainchild of artist Vivian Reiss. You can view this story at: http://www.thestar.com/yourcitymycity/article/856689–living-in-full-colour … Continue reading
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Tagged Annex, arugula, egyptian onion, fennel, Q-tips, red sandals, red sunglasses, vanessa lu, vibrant
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When the Garden Was Just a Twinkle in the Elephant’s Eye
In the post of August 29th, I was struggling to measure the broom corn with a ten foot pole. I needed a fifteen foot pole to touch the tops of the corn. In this photo if you look at the tiny … Continue reading
In my garden:The corn is definately higher than an elephant’s eye
The front yard and boulevard have become a destination garden for many. Among the streams of admirer’s yesterday an elderly couple remarked, “Your corn is higher than an elephant’s eye.” Behold the scientific study in my garden.
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Tagged corn, destination garden, elephant eye, scientific study
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A toast to the tomato: tomato tasting, part 3
This is the recipe I created after last year’s tomato tasting . I used cinnamon bread because the taste of cinnamon and basil are reminiscent of each other. Cinnamon French Toast topped with Tomato Salad Make a tomato salad following “The Remains of … Continue reading
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Tomato tasting: Part 4; Goddess Salad
Ariel and Rachel have been friends since they met at Frosh week at university. The two would sit at my kitchen island as I fed them delicacies that I had just cooked. Rachel would sometimes refer to me as “The Chocolate Goddess.”I think … Continue reading
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Tagged aged balsamic vineger, candied rose petals, isis
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Tomato tasting : This Clint Eastwood is a dud not a dude
The invitation read There are many words to describe the taste of wines, but we invite you to conquer new frontiers with words to describe the taste of Tomatoes. You are invited to attend our Tomato Tasting where we will … Continue reading
And sandwich
The favorite sandwich of my youth, hardly requires a recipe. Slice a tomato. Spread one side of a slice of rye bread, and yes, it must be rye, with mayonnaise. Top with tomato slices and another piece of rye bread. … Continue reading
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Fleeting Summer, Breakfast in a Flash
Sliced tomatoes, purple shiso, purple basil, sliced burgundy pole beans, and chives from my urban farm just outside the kitchen door One of my favorite cookbooks is Edward de Pomiane’s cookbook ,”Cooking in 10 Minutes”[ first published in 1948] I … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward de Pomiane, molecular gastronomy
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