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By JV 2008.02.08 - tags: , , , ,

tomatoesFrom their site: “The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetabile sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens.”

From their automate CD, here’s an excerpt of “cut 2″ (1:03 mp3):


By BG 2008.01.30 - tags: ,

WFMU’s Blog has a post on Carl Warner’s food-photo-landscapes. “Everything you see in these images can be found in the kitchen. Photographer Carl Warner has painstakingly incorporated all kinds of food into a series of still lifes:”

Carl Warner photo of food arranged into a landscape

“The road is paved with cumin, bread mountain off in the distance, peas hang from broccoli trees and cauliflower clouds adorn the heavens:”

Carl Warner photo of food arranged into a landscape


By BG 2007.12.19 - tags: , ,

Drawing of person eating with chopsticksTomorrow on NPR Morning Edition- Hidden Kitchens is Weenie Royale: The Impact of the Internment on Japanese American Cooking, the latest in the Kitchen Sisters series. Here’s a preview of “Weenie Royale” (2:23 mp3):


By BG 2007.11.27 - tags: , ,

Site logoPlay the FreeRice vocabulary game and for each word you get right, they donate rice “through the United Nations to help end world hunger.” The words get progresively harder as you proceed: “WARNING: This game may make you smarter.” Ad revenues fund the food donations. The virally marketed charity started with 830 grains of rice donated the day it launched, Oct 7 2007. Nov 1 total was 59,167,790 grains. Yesterday 140,585,040.


By BG 2007.06.06 - tags: ,

Radio story logoThis Thurs June 6 morn on NPR ME: “Space Food” by The Kitchen Sisters. Go beyond Tang in this new story from Hidden Kitchen.


By JN 2007.04.11 Uncategorized tags:

bacon sandwich “That is the scientific answer to the question: what makes the perfect bacon sandwich?

And, no, it is not April 1.

Researchers at Leeds University spent more than 1,000 hours testing 700 variants on the traditional bacon sandwich, which many Britons refer to as a bacon butty (eschewing the term sandwich, said to have been coined to honor the fourth Earl of Sandwich’s habit of eating meat between slices of bread around 1762).”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/world/europe/11bacon.html