Fleeting Summer, Breakfast in a Flash
Sliced tomatoes, purple shiso, purple basil, sliced burgundy pole beans, and chives from my urban farm just outside the kitchen door One of my favorite cookbooks is Edward de Pomiane's…
The Gardening Sisters’ Wonderful Take on my Garden
http://torontogardens.blogspot.com/2010/07/vivian-reisss-artful-garden.html
Rouge gallery of tomatoes and a couple of jaune ones too!
Today on my office rooftop garden at www.124merton.com there were at least 22 varieties of tomatoes ripening.We have a total of 57 different varieties of heritage tomatoes. Photos from left to right: Hawaiian Pineapple,…
Buzz in in the garden
This morning Dan Goodbaum www.foodbomb.org came to my garden to interview me for a video he is making about my garden and my gardening philosophy . The bees were at work.
Seeds along the Silk Route
My daughter Ariel www.interaxon.com plucked a dill flower from the garden . "Mmm tastes like plov." It wasn't a stretch of her gustatory imagination. Ten years ago, Ariel, Joel and…
Aujourd’hui “Christina” est arrivee en France!
Early this Spring a very stylish and beautiful woman came to my studio to buy a painting.Her name is Christina. As we looked through some of my portraits her equally stylish…
White Waves, Paint White, Fully in the Color Spectrum: Michelle Lloyd’s Birthday
It's not often , I get to spend time fully in the color spectrum, in a world of white. It was Michelle's birthday and we got to boat across the…
No one here but us chickens!
no one here but us chickens On the road to Crowe's Landing ,Stoney Lake ,there is a farm wth an arresting sign: a life size soft sculpture of an old…
Not your usual Medieval Salat; more Recipes from the Concert
Last month on a tour of the Medieval Gardens At The Cloisters, the uptown branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the docent paused in the herb garden to tell us…
Another Sensational Recital by Joel Garten
Joel in concert Joel's recital was a huge success. As each concert is improv and an aural experience not to be repeated each member of the audience was swept away into the…