abigail vera

My last semester of college is proving to be extremely busy already so it’s nice to have memories of Italy - where my days revolved almost around entirely food. Chocolate cake before dinner? Why not?

Tiny relatives of the tomato.

Plant With Purpose

Every morning.

I bought this butter leaf lettuce at Sunflower. I ate the lettuce and then planted the roots. Water, sunshine, and voilà! More lettuce. Like magic.

Basil in his younger, more virile days.

The salsa buffet at El Guero Canelo = my idea of Heaven. I went back for seconds.

“All these crises of our postagrarian, postindustrial, postmodern time converge in the food we eat. Food is among our most basic daily needs. We can get it—cheaply and in great variety and abundance—at any of dozens of huge retail chain stores. We can choose from literally tens of thousands of products that have been shipped across the globe and packaged in wasteful, polluting marketing wraps: meat raised in truly gruesome conditions; produce grown with toxic chemicals; and exotic tropical specialties from places where the legacy of colonialism leaves people growing luxury export crops instead of food they can eat. Food in the supermarket is anonymous, detached from its origins, lacking history, nutrient density, and life force. It is food as pure commodity, and we need better food than that.”

Sandor Ellix Katz - The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved

This is my first real attempt at growing anything from seed. So far this cilantro is a winner. Mexican garnish in a month, anybody?

Surprise: Garlic cloves actually grow!

franken-cherry

Purple Kale: Any vegetable that bleeds blue has to be good for you.

My sweet potato started sprouting. I couldn’t tell at first whether it was leaves or roots. I think it’s upside down in the water here but it looks pretty cool.

Avocado, the younger. Tucson Edition.

I forgot about him for a while and found him sprouting, completely albino, in the darkness of the cupboard. I decided to take a chance on the pale little shoot and, here it is, standing strong and with LEAVES!