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Romanesco broccoli cameo lights up Star Wars film

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Nature Awareness, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening
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...l deGrasse Tyson and the Village Voice. In @StarWars #TheForceAwakens, the lead character snacks on what includes Romanescu Broccoli, nature’s only fractal food. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 21, 2015 We make it a hobby around here to spot the use and misuse of plants in Hollywood. This one is interesting, because while the Romanesco is presented as a food, as it should be–as opposed to ivy vines being presented as a food crop in Maz...

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Rucola Selvatica A Foglia D’ulivo: the arugula you’ve never heard of

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...o used to refer to arugula (and many other greens) as the “Greek Viagra.” There is, apparently, a history of the use of arugula as an aphrodisiac in Mediterranean cultures. According to some sources, you have to cut the arugula with lettuce (a calming plant) so that the salad bowl doesn’t lead too directly to the bedroom. Find more arugula varieties at growitalian.com. Do you have a favorite arugula? As usual, I love hearing from our Italian reade...

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Meet the Solavore Sport Solar Oven

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Solar, Solar Oven Summer
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...our first trial, and had trouble getting the oven up to cooking temp–which lead to a lentil disaster. I failed to notice the lid clips were there at all first time out because they are not immediately obvious. They are small metal hooks which are permanently affixed through holes in the oven’s body. They come up over the lip of the lid to hold it down tight. The good thing about these clips is that they are very simple and would be easy to replace...

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Weekend Linkages: You’re Either On the Bus or Off the Bus

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Saturday Linkages
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...us routes that are crucial lifelines for under-served Angelenos Sabadell Spain’s new bus mascot The FDA’s Warning About NyQuil Chicken Resulted In Around 7,000 Searches For It On TikTok Profiting from poison: how the US lead industry knowingly created a water crisis Workers creating music in a scrapyard in Indonesia Better than Bulgaria but not as nice as Cuba: how did the US become such an awful place to live? Against Pickleball...

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