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In Videos: Paula Deen Talks Kitchen Gadgets on the 'Today' Show
Since your Monday could probably use a little dose of Paula's cackle and charm, watch her at the International Home & Housewares show in Chicago this morning, picking out some of her favorite new kitchen and gardening gadgets. Did you know red is the number-one color for pots? Paula did! And did you know she has eight dogs that she wants to feed the latest barbecue squirrel treats? (One of her pups, Chelsea, looks antsy on camera, and Paula gets all puppy-talk with her.) She also points out that "we're nesting more," hence a budding childrens' gardening apparel market. Watch the video after the jump....No Beets Will Grow in the White House's Organic Vegetable Garden?
President Obama doesn't like beets, which means there may not be any beets growing on the White House lawn. While I am thrilled about the new organic vegetable garden, it seems Mr. President should get over his beet aversion. Give them another chance, man?10 Steps to Gardening From Scratch
Photograph from johnm2205 on Flickr Between the economy and an emphasis on locavore eating, people are returning to their roots, literally. (I'll take a lame gardening pun whenever I can.) Here's a great list from a horticulturalist on 10 steps to gardening from scratch. Get a soil test and quit making excuses for not starting the compost bin yet. According to this Yahoo! News report, "the National Gardening Association estimates that a well-maintained vegetable garden yields a $500 average return per year. A study by Burpee Seeds claims that $50 spent on gardening supplies can multiply into $1,250 worth of produce annually." They are being nicknamed "recession gardens," a throwback to the Victory Gardens of World War I and...In Videos: A Short History of the White House Garden
This cute video gives a quick history of the various gardens that presidents have planted on the White House grounds, from the first one, planted by John Adams in 1800 to Eleanor Roosevelt's WWII Victory Garden. Plenty of small-talk fodder in here. For instance, did you know that the White House once had an orangery? I do have to warn you that what starts out as a neat little source of garden-related trivia does turn in to an "eat local" nag around the two-minute mark. Video, after the jump....Woman Discovers Strawmato, A Strawberry Inside a Tomato
Esther Walker, a 48-year-old woman from Cheltenham, Gloucester, England, was just cutting open a tomato from her garden, minding her own business, when she discovered an unplanned pregnancy. A tomato womb carrying a strawberry. Behold, the strawmato. “We’re keeping it in the fridge in case an expert wants to look at it,” she told authorities. This triggers daydreams of other improbable fruit and vegetable hybrids. What would you want? Simpsons fans are clearly rooting for the tomacco, a cross between tobacco and a tomato, Homer's fertilization project when he "planted a little bit of everything." [via Boing Boing]...Eating Locally Without the Labor
MyFarm brings the dirt (and locally grown food) to you! Photograph from MyFarm's Picasa gallery Want to grow food in your backyard without getting your hands dirty? Just hire someone else to do it for you! The New York Times covers services catering to "lazy locavores," including personal vegetable gardening from MyFarm in San Francisco, locally grown mail-order meals from Three Stone Hearth in Berkeley, and locally grown fruit deliveries to your office from The Fruitguys. If you do like getting your hands dirty by gardening or cooking, maybe this is your chance to start a new locavore-friendly business. Related Food Words for Thought: 'Locavore' as 2007's Word of the Year I Took the Locavore Challenge (Sort of)...Oregano's Many, Many Incarnations
Photograph from Michael_L on Flickr I thought I had a basic understanding of oregano: I like a healthy dash on my pizza, and always in my feta-laden Greek salads. But I was wrong. I didn't know that I'm probably using O. heracleoticum, which has a pungent oregano-like taste. Unless O. viride, a seedless cousin, is what's living in my store-bought jar of dried oregano. Or maybe it's Origanum x majoricum, an Italian oregano-marjoram hybrid that the Herb Society of America likes best for culinary use. Margaret Roach of A Way to Garden learned her oregano lesson the hard way. She wanted to grow a supply of the versatile herb to cook with but didn't end up with what she was...Vegetables in the UK Ruined by Manure Contaminated With Toxic Fertilizer
The Guardian UK is reporting on gardeners who have unknowingly poisoned their own vegetables by using manure contaminated with a powerful herbicide, causing plants and vegetables to grow "deformed and withered" in gardens and allotments across the UK. The pesticide appears to have entered the food chain via grass treated twelve months ago: "Experts say the grass was probably made into silage, then fed to cattle during the winter months. The herbicide remained present in the silage, passed through the animal and into manure that was later sold." The extent of this problem is not known, but gardeners are being warned not to eat any home-grown vegetables that bear signs of damage by the herbicide, and are being advised not...Two Makes It a Trend: Guerrilla Gardening
May 29: The Los Angeles Times runs a story on guerrilla gardening. June 8: The New York Times Magazine runs one, too, but with videos....Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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