Posted by Caitlin Kenney, September 12, 2008 at 12:00 PM
New York Daily News
It's exactly the kind of thing you would expect to see in a county fair contest—a giant 6-foot-long zucchini. But while some farmers spend months carefully cultivating their prize-winning fruits and vegetables, a Queens woman says fertilizer, water, and a little TLC is all it took for her to grow this giant vegetable (technically an immature fruit, in proper botanical terms) in her backyard.
At just over six feet, this zucchini is a foot taller than its owner Apollonia Castitlione, and it's just shy of the world record of a 7-foot, 10-inch zucchini grown in India three years ago, reports the New York Daily News.
Although this zucchini could be used in a lot of tasty dishes, Castitlione says it won't be on her dinner table anytime soon. She is going to save its potent seeds for next year.
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Photo of the Day: Kids Playing with Giant Zucchini
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Posted by Hannah Howard, June 11, 2008 at 2:15 PM
How to live a less meat-centric life: Mark Bittman writes, "The arguments for eating less meat are myriad and well-publicized, but at the moment they’re irrelevant, because what I want to address here is (almost) purely pragmatic: How do you do it?" His answers are pretty simple: buy less meat, buy more vegetables.
Ago is a mess: Frank Bruni visits the self-proclaimed "hot spot" Ago, an Agostino Sciandri and Robert DeNiro venture in the new Greenwich Hotel in TriBeCa. It gets zero stars and some artful prose detailing Bruni's multiple meals gone awry.
Gardening as economic strategy: There hasn't been such an interest in growing food at home since the 1970s. Marian Burros points to higher grocery costs and a stumbling economy.
The man behind many a spectacular food event: Lee Schrager is a master event planner with a gift for using celebrity chefs to pull off big festivals that make big money.
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