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New HD Video of Vivian Reiss, interviewed in her garden
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Tagged amaranth, broom corn, candied rose petals, garden, interview, toronto, urban farming, video, vimeo, vivian reiss
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Of Rye and Radishes
Rye in my garden This morning looking out at my garden, I noticed that the rye was ripening in the paisley bed near the elephant. How did that happen? Just yesterday I had pulled out the maple syrup taps from … Continue reading
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Tagged breakfast radishes, curly cress, french, french breakfast radishes, mizuna, rye, rye bread
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“To V. or not to V.” The 3rd Act
The invitation to my birthday party read, ”To v. or not to v.?” That is the question. Come to a birthday party to celebrate my birth, rebirth and the birth of William Shakespeare. I’ll supply the Elizabethan feast, please supply … Continue reading
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Tagged elizabethan dancing, elizabethan salat, elizabethen feast, gilded marzipan, lavender, rosewater, salat, shakespeare's birthday, shallots, sonnet
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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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Palm Beach Hedge Fund
In midieval San Gimignano tall towers were the symbol of wealth and power. Eventually there were 72 such structures rising ever higher in this Tuscan hilltop village. Today few still remain. In Palm Beach, Florida such symbols are thriving and are indeed literally living … Continue reading
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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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Banana Bird
I am on the furthest eastward point of St. John US VI in a beautiful rented villa open to the sea and air on all sides. The only discordant part of the gorgeous setting and decor are the fake indoor plants that … Continue reading
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Tagged banana, banana bird, butter, cookies and cream ice cream, cookies and creme, fale, ice cream, knob creek bourbon, st john, St John US VI, us vi
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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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Packaging up the chard
My chard grows to great height and girth. I never harvest the plants until I have warning of imminent frost, since it is part of my decorative garden and people enjoy observing the plant’s beauty. Harvesting a few leaves every now and … Continue reading
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Tagged bay leaves, chicken soup, cilantro, rainbow chard, turkey, water chestnuts
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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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Sorghum: The Sweet Taste of Success
Sorghum; the sweet extracted juice This Summer’s boulevard garden was a great success. The broom corn reached a record height of 15′ 8″. Nestled among the amaranth, broom corn, cotton, beets, artichokes, buckwheat, zinnias, dill, Swiss chard, upland rice, coriander, eggplants, … Continue reading
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Tagged northern sugar cane, sorghum
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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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Too many tomatoes? Let’s play ketchup
The rays of the late afternoon sun are lengthening and what seemed impossible two months earlier is now a reality; there are too many tomatoes to eat and too little time to enjoy them. There has to be a way … Continue reading
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Tagged catsup, cinnamon, cloves, hamburgers, ketchup, lettuce leaf basil, mace
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Clockwork orange
orange in the garden,caro rich tomatoes,carrots,orange stemmed chard,nasturtiums and marigolds Like clockwork, a year to the day, since our last year’s tomato tasting, Corey Mintz shows up at my door to borrow a cup of tomatoes. He was bearing my … Continue reading
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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
Corn-servation
Buying supplies for my rooftop garden, I had an after thought.” Why not try growing corn in the planters? I am sure it will look beautiful and rustic.” I picked up a cell pack of corn seedlings and headed up to the garden … Continue reading
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Tagged chile, corn, lime, lime leaves, Mexican, pasta
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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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Figs, Show me your Leaves!
Last year I planted fig trees in all of my gardens. www.annexrentals.com I even planted them in pots at the entrance of our office building. www.empressbuilding.com Their leaves are beautiful and growing such exotic fruit in our climate, Toronto Canada, peeks … Continue reading
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