Posted in Food, tagged asian vegetable, bitter melon, brooklyn, brooklyn greengrocer, front yard garden brooklyn, karela, photography on September 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »
While walking around Brooklyn, I came across a frontyard garden devoted to bitter melon. The garden patch was about the size and height of a mid-sized car. That’s a lot of this strange-looking vegetable. A cheery neighbor interrogated me. “Do you know what those are?” he asked. “Yes,” I replied. “Asians love them!” he told me. I have yet to sample the bitter melon; they are about $1.99 a pound at the green grocer.
Posted in Food, tagged bitter melon, brooklyn, church ave, kensington brooklyn, mystery vegetable, photography, south asian vegetable, striped vegetable on November 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Because I can’t. My guess is that it’s an Asian squash. You’ll note the bitter melons in the upper right corner. I’m looking, not buying; that’s the extent of my curiosity today.
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