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Food Porn Daily: Ginger, parsnip and carrot soup

Posted Feb 28th 2008 7:57AM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Food Porn, Vegetables, On the Blogs, Vegetarian/Vegan

I made a pot of butternut squash and carrot soup recently, but I didn't manage to take any photogenic pictures of it before I ate it all up. Luckily, I ran across this very food porn-y shot of the Ginger, Parsnip and Carrot soup that Flickr user Sonicwalker made, and my need to post a picture of orange soup has at last been quenched. If you want to make this particular soup, you can find the recipe here.

If you've made a pot of bright orange soup lately (and let's face it, who doesn't need vibrantly colored food this time of year?) head over the Slashfood Flickr group and add your pictures.

Alaska hosts Ginormous Vegetable Contest

Posted Jul 17th 2007 11:14AM by Joanne Lutynec
Filed under: Science, Farming, Vegetables, Food Oddities, Did you know?, America, Garden Party, Festivals

When I first read this post over at our sister site Gadling, I was visualizing some over-sized zucchini or maybe tomatoes the size of a grapefruit, but I honestly didn't expect to see anything quite like this.

Apparently, Alaska hosts a Giant Vegetable Contest every year at their state fair. As Neil points out, the sun in Alaska barely sets during the summer, and the result of the vegetables continuously receiving the benefits of around-the-clock sunlight is that they tend to grow considerably larger than in most other places. This is extremely evident judging by the picture above, which is of the 2006 winner of the Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off. Brenna Dinkel took the title with her 73.4-pound cabbage - and no, I don't even want to know how much cabbage soup that would make.

Other records set last year include:

23-foot, 3 1/2-inch corn stalk
4.702-pound parsnip
1,019-pound pumpkin
17.195-pound yellow zucchini
67 1/8-inch long gourd
55.15-pound blue hubbard squash
21.530-pound bushel gourd

The next event will be held in Palmer, Alaska, between August 23 and September 3, 2007. If anyone makes it out for this event, send us some pictures!

The ugliest vegetables of the year

Posted Oct 19th 2006 12:28PM by Nicole Weston
Filed under: British Isles, Farming, Vegetables, Food Oddities, Food Quest

Depending on how you look at it, the Nation Trust's ugly vegetable competition is either a good idea or a bad one. On one hand, it gets kids involved in growing their own fruits and vegetables, which could start them with good habits for later in life. On the other hand, the sight of some of the "winners" could put them off veggies for quite some time.

The contest isn't just for children, though. It started as a way to cultivate some appreciation for ugly fruits and vegetables, most of which are underappreciated in the kitchen. There are multiple age categories: under 5, 5-7, 8-11, 11-16, 25-65 and over 65 years old. In each range there was a winner and this parsnip, grown by Mrs Hilary Nellist in the 25-65 group, took home the grand prize for the ugliest vegetable of the year.

There were no winners for the 16-25 category, which either means that they are all exceptional gardeners and can't grow ugly veggies or that gardening isn't exactly a cool past-time for that age group.

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