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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Yellow Tomatoes and Snow
Today, there were snow showers. The time for picking tomatoes from the vine has passed for this year. I used the yellow tomatoes that have been ripening on the table in my breakfast room for a quick pasta sauce. Plunge the … Continue reading
Chsardas: Memories of Mrs Terhes
Csardas /ˈtʃaːrdaːʃ/: My Grandmother, would sew the costume and my Mother would teach me the dance. Which came first, the inn “Csarda” or the dance “Csardas”? That philosophical question was unimportant to Hungarian expats in New York. What was important, was to find where … 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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Cotton; in utero
Growing impatient to see the bolls in my garden burst and ripen with cotton , I picked one today and opened it up to reveal it’s inner beauty. Here the developing cotton is placed on a late blooming dahlia. Breath taking!
The Vari’s Garden Party
The annual Vari’s garden party is always held in late August in honor of George’s birthday. I painted their portrait a few years ago in my studio in Toronto. When I paint a portrait, I usually ask the subject to bring an item … Continue reading
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Tagged casino tojas, deviled eggs, francia salata, french salad, garden party, helen and george vari, love, portrait
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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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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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