(image) Let’s start with the first squash word you need to know: bounteous. If you plant zucchini (or any of zucchini’s summer squash brethren), you will be blessed with a bounteous harvest. So bounteous, in fact, that you may be driven to desperate measures to make use of this bounteousness. In Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon, [Read more]
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Yes! You Can Grow Rhubarb at Home and It’s Not Even That Scary
As with Nadia’s amazing rhubarb recipes, when it comes to growing rhubarb there’s enough to talk about that we’re going to break this baby into two parts. First up: the basics. What does rhubarb actually look like before it’s all cut up in a pie? And the big question: “Are you serious? You want me [Read more]
Richa and Ajay’s UES Retreat
Seventeen floors above East 65th street, Richa Gulati and her husband Ajay have created a terrace haven. Their apartment is full of soothing shades of white and cream, with beautiful wood carvings and bursts of fuschia and violet throughout. The colors carry directly out onto the terrace, with petunias, African violets, salvia, pink geraniums, and [Read more]
Loony for Luscious Meyer Lemons
As Charity eluded to in her last post, Meyer lemons occupy a league of their own in the citrus realm. They really are quite the most mystical of fruit. They appear lemon-shaped, but with their egg-yolk yellowy-amber hue (I refer to organic eggs!) and more rotund waistlines, they resemble their cousins, the orange. Similarly, their [Read more]