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Weird Veg Quiz IV
Dear class, today we are having a QUIZ!Yes, your favorite! It's been awhile since we've had a weird vegetable mystery post, so to keep you on your toes, I'm posting this medley and you have 30 seconds...
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Strange Love
"strange howyou control my every littlemove nowhanging from your stringsis all I knowstarring in your puppet shownever let me gostrange love"Photo shared by the buds at Farmer's Pal, and left on the WV...
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Why Use Pepper When You've Got Spicy Sprouts?
To the wealth of oft-repeated sayings, such as "The apple falls not far from the tree," or, "Like father, like son," allow me to emend the following adages:"Like veggie, like sprout.""The sprout...
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The Turnip Princess
The Turnip Princess lies in wait for her Pumpkin Prince to appear one moonlit night and find her absolutely radishing. Her pale luminescence is crowned by her own greeny mantle and a chamommile diadem....
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Daikon Prince Charming
It's been over a month, and the Turnip Princess was starting to tap her rooty tendrils with impatience at all my delays. Luckily, the WV team is always turning up some good things in the soil of...
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Psychedelic Asparagus
Please watch this amazingly INSANE animated journey by artist Suzan Pitt while you are eating asparagus and sitting on the TOILET. It is going to blow your mind. I really like the saturated colors and...
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Vegetable Dressing
"Tutti Fruity" from the New York TimesLook at the New York Times getting all heady with edible fashion and food puns in their spread "Salad Days" from a couple weeks ago... I don't know whether I want...
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Weird Vegetable Iron Chefs at the NY Food Book Fair
Wild tamarack, basswood leaves, garlic mustard, fiddlehead ferns, and knotweed over Spanish mackerel. Source: NPRWhile some of us gaze dreamily out at the rainy rainforest in Rio de Janeiro, others are...
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Artichoke Intensi-TEA
Last month, my veggie-loving friend in Rio, Celery Kabbage, brought me a sweet present of artichoke tea. I'd never had it before—neither had she—and we brewed a pot after dinner. As the artichoke...
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Meanwhile, back at the San Francisco Ferry Building...
Being born and raised in a place like San Francisco should normally make a person avoid tourist tornado zones and the risk of being mistaken for a tourist at all costs (Fisherman's Wharf doesn't even...
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Time For Twig Tea
Just over here sipping on some twig tea in the nebulous region between Oakland and Berkeley, part concrete jungle and 2am Jack in the Box drive-thru binges, part sunshine garden idyll and...
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Literary Kale
As you may have guessed, I'm always on the lookout for good literary vegetable passages. Thoreau is still my favorite wielder of worded vegetables, especially his passages on pumpkins and beans. So I...
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Cute Vegetables and Familiar Faces at the South Berkeley Farmers' Market
Moving from San Francisco to the Oakland-Berkeley borderlands (with an interlude in Rio de Janeiro) has brought a few challenges of acclimation, like getting lost in Oakland every other time I try to...
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Purple Moon Potatoes
Been thinking a lot about moons lately, between this month's blue moon and the honey yellow harvest moon I saw rising up from the hills of San Francisco on Sunday around 8:30pm. When I cut into these...
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Funny Carrot Man
Look at this child's funny carrot treasure, dug up during an Internet stroll by Radish Khorn over at the exciting and instantly venerable magazine of weird and delicious food, Lucky Peach. Did anyone...
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Flowering Kale
Here is a kale blossom to cheer your kitchen as the weather turns cold and the rain gives us an excuse to sleep scandalously late on the weekends and lounge around inside, being both lazy and...
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Witchy Brew: Meadowsweet, Fennel, and Marshmallow Root
Magic herbs in the company of the very magical Clarice LispectorHaving recently moved from San Francisco's Mission District to the Berkeley-Oakland borderlands (by way of Rio de Janeiro for a year+ in...
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Somebody Take This Obese Pumpkin, Please!
It's the time of year when gourds start to take over, spilling from the oven and dinner plate onto people's front porches and various home display nooks. And the grocery stores start getting inspired...
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They Draw & Cook Vegetables
The art of cooking intermingles with the cooking of art over at They Draw & Cook, a website of recipes illustrated by countless artists from around the world. The illustrations all take the form of...
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Vilmorin's Vegetable Garden of My Dreams
The days grow colder, shadows lengthen, and roots burrow deeper into the land, swaddling themselves in ever thicker layers. The carrots are so cold they turn pale and begin to shiver like leeks. The...
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Kale Daikon on Hiatus; Exciting Winter Veg Discoveries
Dear vegetable loverz,You may have noticed a very long, wintry pause in the vegetable rumblings of this site. This is just to say that Kale Daikon is still at large, indulging in and thinking about the...
View ArticleCultivating Feral Intelligence with Deborah Madison
Last month, I went to Santa Fe for work, and thanks to a friendly introduction from Leafy Heirloom, had the pleasure of meeting Deborah Madison. Author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and founding...
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The Roots of Spring (A Paean to the Greens of Little City Gardens)
I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEADAPRIL is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful...
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Weird Veg in Paper Magazine!
I've long harbored a simultaneous pleasure and discontent in the fact that Weird Vegetables has always been a little haphazardly thrown together, never quite ready for prime-time, much less polished...
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Kale, Interrupted
This Kale is on MAJOR furlough for the next several months.Apologies to the vegetable gods.Meanwhile this is happening...
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