Conjoined eggplant twins
Andy is absolutely killing it. These images are awesome to me. I hope you enjoy!
Absolutely amazing MRI scans of vegetables, in animated GIFs.
Awesome and sort of creepy.
We’re in the thick of fall in New England. Each day’s sunset leads into progressively chillier nights, and the trees outside my window shake and shiver until their branches are almost bare. It’s hard saying goodbye to casual sandal weather. It doesn’t help that summertime produce is my favorite (tomatoes everywhere!), and I don’t get as excited about seasonal fall veggies. For eating, that is. However, pumpkins are adorable mascots of autumn - you can carve them, stick candles in them, set ‘em out on your porch. I may not care much for butternut squash, but its eccentric cousin, the gourd, looks great dressing up a holiday table. In the spirit of begrudgingly celebrating the fall, here are two lovely photos of lumpy, warty seasonal goodness, taken by my friends Sarah and Eric.
My friend Kellyn, a garden educator, grew these bumpy, warty pumpkins in one of her school gardens. She displayed these three (the sole survivors of powdery mildew disease) in the school lobby. Those kids are lucky to have Kellyn showing them that pumpkins come in all sorts of crazy shapes and sizes!
I’m not a fan of droughts, but I *AM* very excited that a major British grocery store chain has started selling imperfect, ugly vegetables!
“Knobbly carrots, wonky spuds, bent courgettes and discoloured cauliflowers” are all on the table.
Because the move to sell ugly veggies will certainly never come from a push from customers, I’m thinking that environmental disasters might provide the needed motivation for a paradigm shift. I also love how the store manager isn’t apologetic, but says that these unconventional veggies “have great personality.” That’s the spirit!
You might be wondering what this strange melon-looking fruit is. Truth be told, I’m not sure. Nor was my roommate, who had picked it up from a market in Chinatown. Nevertheless, she created a delicious soup from this melon and little else. This post is timely, actually, because this roommate of mine is leaving tonight for new adventures. I’m going to miss her and her creative recipes!
Ugly tomato season is my favorite season!
