{"id":4,"date":"2004-06-30T07:13:35","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T16:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.taodekitchen.com\/2004\/05\/31\/playing-with-your-vegetables\/"},"modified":"2006-01-09T22:08:20","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T07:08:20","slug":"playing-with-your-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/general\/playing-with-your-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with your vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><font size=\"3\"><font size=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">When we were kids, most of our mom&#8217;s would tell us not to play with our food&#8230;I wonder if the members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemueseorchester.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra<\/a> got this lecture!<br \/>\nSo, immediately prior to a performance, members of the orchestra would take 90 pounds of vegetables and fashion them into musical instruments. Apparently freshness counts in not just food for your table but for the stage as well. I guess you can say this isn\u2019t canned music\u2026<br \/>\nThe veggies of course are only good for the one performance &#8211; afterwards, the muscians pass their instruments on to a band of chefs who make a huge pot of soup for the audience to enjoy post performance. Honestly, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d want to dine on soup made from vegetables someone has been blowing in.<br \/>\nAnd speaking of playing with your food\u2026scientist at Cornell have hybridized a new variety of cauliflower that is orange. The first orange cauliflower was discovered in a marsh outside of Toronto. It didn\u2019t taste very good so the scientist got to work on crossing it with plain old white cauliflower to increase the flavor. According to lab analysis &#8211; the orange cauliflower has 25 times more Vitamin A than it\u2019s white cousin. I suppose this means the orange variety is good for you but I want to know what was in the water in that marsh! Anyway, look for this new variety in specialty grocers or maybe at your local farmer\u2019s market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"><br \/>\nSigning off now\u2026remember, you can play with your vegetables but don\u2019t forget to eat your veggies too!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were kids, most of our mom&#8217;s would tell us not to play with our food&#8230;I wonder if the members of the The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra got this lecture! So, immediately prior to a performance, members of the orchestra would take 90 pounds of vegetables and fashion them into musical instruments. Apparently freshness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}