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VIDEO: Vivian Reiss on Growing Cotton in Your Front Yard, With 100% of Canada’s Cotton Crop
Artist, designer and urban farming pioneer Vivian Reiss in her garden in Toronto, Canada, showing off her cotton plants she grew. This cotton crop was 100% of Canada’s cotton output this year. Learn how to plant and grow cotton, and … Continue reading
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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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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
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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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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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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Horseradish, of Plague and Pleasure
Horseradish leaves in my garden in the Fall The first thing we harvest from our garden in the Spring is horseradish for our traditional Passover plate. We dig up the root ,wash and peel it and then don snorkeling gear to grate it. … Continue reading
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A New Series Beginning: Giant Garden Paintings!
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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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“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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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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Spoon Tomatoes
Standing in the greenhouse looking at a choice of seedlings of 200 varieties of heritage tomatoes I could grow was a thrill.This Spring having built more wooden boxes and added more colored plastic tubs to my office roof top vegetable garden I could still only accomodate about 60 varieties, accounting for … Continue reading
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Tagged caviar, lemon groves, salmon roe, unami
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