"Watermelon" Tomatoes

Posted by Jill Harness in Arts & Crafts, Food & Drinks, Pictures on October 12, 2009 at 12:20 pm

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The picture above sure looks like a minuscule watermelon doesn’t it? Just imagine biting into it, skin and all, to discover it is entirely tomato-y though. That’s because the adorable creation is actually made from a green zebra tomato shell filled with tomato gel and topped with black sesame seeds. It might not be the most productive way to spend your time, but the effect is certainly fascinating.

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That’s Not Fruit!

Posted by Miss Cellania in Food & Drinks on September 29, 2009 at 12:58 pm

Most of us think of sweet produce as fruit and not-sweet garden foods as vegetables, with the exception of the tomato because that’s been argued over so much. But which plant foods are scientifically fruits, and which are vegetables?

A fruit — a ‘true fruit’ — is one where all tissues are derived from the plant ovary and this alone. This includes peas. Whereas strawberries, for example, also include some of the flesh from the peg that holds the ovary, disqualifying them from fruit status. The apple gets its carpels involved as well as the ovary, leading to a kinky pome. ‘True berries’ are also ‘true fruits’, but not the other way round. Grapes, currants (red and black), elder- and gooseberries are all proper upstanding berries which will not deceive you or smuggle themselves into your house in pies before stealing your silver while you sleep.

Whatever you call them, you should have five servings a day, and eat a variety of different whatever-they-ares. Link -via Scribal Terror

 
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The Underground Fruit Economy: Fresh Fruit, via Your Neighbors

Posted by Queuebot in Food & Drinks on June 10, 2009 at 1:24 pm

Have you ever seen a neighbor’s fruit left unharvested, all those fruit wasted? Think there’s a better way? Though neighbors trading apples for plums isn’t exactly new phenomenon, the Internet is changing the way and fueling growth in the "underground economy" of trading fruit.

Kim Severson of The New York Times has an interesting article about this trend:

All over the country, the underground fruit economy is growing. At new Web sites like neighborhoodfruit.com and veggietrader.com, fruit seekers can find public mulberry patches in Pennsylvania and neighbors willing to trade blackberries in Oklahoma.

In Royal Oak, Mich., a woman investigated how to start a fruit exchange modeled after Fallen Fruit (fallenfruit.org), an arts group that designs maps of accessible fruit growing in Los Angeles neighborhoods.

In Alaska, cooks used Facebook to find willing donors of backyard rhubarb, the first dessert crop that grows after the long winter. In Columbia, S.C., university students pulled spare peaches from orchards and donated them to a local food bank.

Supporters of this movement hold two basic principles. One, it’s a shame to let fruit go to waste. And two, neighborhood fruit tastes best when it’s free.

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7 Intriguing Genetically Modified Fruits & Veggies

Posted by Miss Cellania in Food & Drinks on March 10, 2009 at 10:42 am


Do you know what a pluot is? It’s a hybrid cross between a plum and an apricot. Sounds yummy! The pluot pictured is just one of seven hybrid or genetically modified food items detailed at WebEcoist. Link -via the Presurfer

 
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Heart Shapped Cucumbers

Posted by Jill Harness in Food & Drinks, Odd News, Science & Tech on January 26, 2009 at 10:33 pm

These cucumber growing molds from Japan are so fun! They would be great for bento boxes or in salads and sushi. I bet you could also use them for zucchini. I want one!

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Fruit Sticker Art

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Food & Drinks on January 26, 2009 at 8:26 pm

By day Barry Snyder is an Erie, Colorado handyman. But in his spare time he is a unique artist who has garnered media attention from across the country. For over 30 years Barry has collected Price Look Up stickers to use as color chips in his own form of mosaic art. On average his creations take 6 months to complete and are comprised of up to 4,000 stickers.

Check out this short video from Food Network’s Unwrapped that profiles Barry Snyder and gives viewers a look into his world of sticker art.

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Chris "Jesus" Ferguson Makes Fruit Salad

Posted by Stacy in Video Clips on January 6, 2009 at 11:10 pm

Professional poker player Chris Ferguson can cut bananas and watermelon just by throwing a playing card. Pretty impressive, but wouldn’t it be easier to just use a knife?
I kid, I kid.

 
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Geek Fruit

Posted by Miss Cellania in Food & Drinks on December 12, 2008 at 11:52 am


I didn’t know you could do this.

An owner of a Fuji apple orchard printed up custom stickers of iPods and the Apple logo. He then put the stickers on his Fuji apples while they were still young and on the trees.

A month later after the apples had matured, he removed the stickers.

I’ll have to try this myself next year! Link -via Grow-a-Brain

 
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Behold the Atheist's Nightmare: the Banana

Posted by Robert Birming in Food & Drinks, Video Clips on April 12, 2008 at 9:25 am

It comes with a non-slip surface, a three-level color indicator system for fast and accurate quality information, an innovative curved design, and much more.

Link [YouTube] – via Pusha

 
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