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Al Kennedy Alternative High School

The Kennedy Apiary promotes vegetable growth in the neighboring community garden, and the beehives allow students to get a hands-on experience to study the ecology of the honeybee.

Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?

Sixty years later Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? is still being modelled in archaeological events.

August Engelhardt

Health reformer August Moritz Engelhardt :de:August Engelhardt wrote a book called A Carefree Future in 1898, which described a colony of fruit and vegetable eaters, specifically cocoivores (coconut eaters) he was founding in the then Bismarck Archipelago (now Papua New Guinea) in the South Pacific a place known for its headhunters.

Biodiesel

Attempts to overcome these problems included heating of the vegetable oil, blending it with petroleum-derived diesel fuel or ethanol, pyrolysis and cracking of the oils.

Blue-plate special

One 1947 Candid Microphone episode features Allen Funt ordering a blue-plate special and trying to talk the waiter into making various changes, such as replacing the vegetable soup with consommé, while the polite but increasingly annoyed waiter tries in vain to explain to Funt that "no substitutions" means what it says.

Brassica nigra

In Ethiopia, where it is cultivated as a vegetable in Gondar, Harar and Shewa, the shoots and leaves are consumed cooked and the seeds used as a spice.

Caralluma adscendens

It has been eaten in rural India for centuries, raw, as a vegetable with spices, or preserved in chutneys and pickles, and is often found as a roadside shrub or boundary marker.

Chittaattukara

Ayurvedic Medical Shops, Allopathic Medical Shops, Rice Mills, Oil Mills, Petrol Pump, Stationery shops, Grocery shops, Vegetable Markets, Fish Markets, Meat Markets etc. are available here.

Crystal City, Texas

By March 26, 1937, the growers had erected a statue of the cartoon character Popeye in the town because his reliance on spinach for strength led to greater popularity for the vegetable, which had become a staple cash crop of the local economy.

Deng Zhengjia

One netizen cited by the South China Morning Post compared Deng's death to the case of Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian vegetable vendor whose cart was seized by police in 2010.

Edi Bazar

Near Edi bazar there is a big vegetable market at Madannapet, which is quite popular among people of surrounding suburbs.

Edwin A. McAlpin

On October 27, 1870, he married Anne Brandreth, daughter of Benjamin Brandreth proprietor of the then-famous “Brandreth Vegetable Universal Pills” from which he had amassed a large fortune.

Elaterium

The squirting cucmber, a member of the natural order Cucurbitaceae, resembles the vegetable marrow in its growth.

Eliot Coleman

On his Four Season Farm in Harborside (Brooksville), Maine, he produces year-round vegetable crops under harsh winter conditions, using unheated and minimally heated greenhouse structures.

Family names in North Karnataka

Surnames drawn from Food Items are Balikai (Banana), Bendikai (Okra), Bellolli (Garlic), ULLagaDDi (Onion), MeNasinakai (Chilli), Tenginakai (Coconut), Byali (Pulse/Dal), Tuppa (Ghee), Palle (Vegetable), Guggari (Boiled Food grains), Churamari (Bhel), Sajji (A type of Food grain), Akki (Rice), Jola (Jawar)

Fatback

Fatback is a traditional part of southern US cuisine, soul food and traditional Cuisine of Quebec, where it is used for fried pork rinds (known there as cracklings, or Oreilles de crisse in Quebec), and to flavor stewed vegetables such as greens, green beans, and black-eyed peas.

Fermented bean curd

Fermented bean curd can also be added in small amounts, together with its brine, to flavor stir-fried or braised vegetable dishes (particularly leafy green vegetables such as water spinach).

Harry Dodson

In 1984, Jennifer Davies of the BBC was looking for a venue for a projected television programme on traditional methods of vegetable gardening, to be called The Victorian Kitchen Garden.

Helichrysum italicum

Rather, it has an resinous, somewhat bitter aroma reminiscent of sage or wormwood and is used like these: the young shoots and leaves are stewed in Mediterranean meat, fish or vegetable dishes til they have imparted their flavor, and removed before serving.

Horticulture Research International

The HRI was constituted in May 1990 from the AFRC Institute of Horticultural Research Stations at Wellesbourne (the National Vegetable Research Station), East Malling (the East Malling Research Station) and Littlehampton (the Glasshouse Crops Research Institute), the Hop Unit at Wye College and the ADAS Experimental Stations of MAFF at Efford, Kirton and Stockbridge.

Kari Kennell

Representing PETA, and wearing plastic lettuce-leaf bikinis, Kari Kennell and fellow Playboy Playmate Lauren Anderson (Miss July 2002) sold vegetable hot dogs to members of Congress outside the Rayburn Office Building in Washington D.C.

Kelvedon

Perhaps the most recognisable vegetable seed developed by and still produced by Kings Seeds is the Kelvedon Wonder Pea.

Kongbap

Ričet, a European barley, bean, vegetable and pork stew also sometimes associated with prisons

Korokke

Korokke is made by mixing cooked chopped meat, seafood, or vegetables with mashed potato or white sauce, rolling it in wheat flour, eggs, and breadcrumbs, then deep frying this until brown on the outside.

Madannapet

There is a big vegetable market called as Madannapet mandi, which is quite popular among people of surrounding suburbs.

Mazahua people

Common ingredients include squash, pipian sauce, a vegetable called quelite and a wide variety of mushrooms, generally found in the forest at certain times of the year.

Melamuri

It is an important vegetable market and acts as a gateway to the Big Bazaar for traders and buyers from rural areas of Kongad, Mundur, and Parali.

Michael Somoroff

In 1979, his Vegetable Series was exhibited at the International Center of Photography in New York City under the auspices of Cornell Capa.

Moreton Say

Every year the village holds a flower and produce show during summer where villagers and people from the local community can compete in many classes from best vegetable & fruit, flowers, crafts, cookery as well as other classes.

Moringa stenopetala

Moringa stenopetala is mostly known for its importance as a nutritious vegetable tree food crop in the terraced fields of Konso, Ethiopia.

MuseuMAfricA

The museum is housed in the city's former fruit and vegetable market in Newtown, built in 1913, located opposite Mary Fitzgerald Square, on the same block as the Market Theatre.

Nick Digilio

The Nick Digilio Show can currently be heard on WGN Radio in Chicago (720 AM) where Digilio discusses popular culture, current events, all things Chicago, and other hot topics including why the Flavor Bowl from KFC is the best fast food item ever produced, and the fact that there actually once was vegetable flavored Jell-O.

Noodle soup

Champon - yellow noodles of medium thickness served with a great variety of seafood and vegetable toppings in a hot chicken broth which originated in Nagasaki as a cheap food for students

Opogona purpuriella

The larvae are scavengers and have been reared from dead sugarcane, dead bark of Artocarpus and other decaying vegetable matter, Plumeria, Reynoldsia and Sicana odorifera.

Oslo breakfast

Extra ingredients might include slices of raw uncooked vegetable, such as carrots or swedes.

Otto Unverdorben

In 1826 at the age of 20, Unverdorben discovered aniline, which he obtained from the distillation of natural vegetable indigo.

Pampadum Shola National Park

The adjacent villages beyond the National Park are Urkkad, Vattavada, Koviloor, and Kottakamboor, with its rich vegetable cultivations.

Pisal Banda

There is a big vegetable market at Madannapet, which is quite popular among people of surrounding suburbs.

Scurvy

In 1734, the Leiden-based physician Johann Bachstrom published a book on scurvy in which he stated that "scurvy is solely owing to a total abstinence from fresh vegetable food, and greens; which is alone the primary cause of the disease" and urged the use of fresh fruit and vegetables as a cure.

Seeds for Africa

Seeds for Africa is a British charity that has set up over 800 garden projects across 25 African countries, where it encourages sustainable vegetable gardening by providing indigenous vegetable seeds, agricultural equipment and technical expertise.

Tony Angell

In the early 1940s the Angell family took up residency in the San Fernando Valley, which was still largely undeveloped and surrounded by vegetable farms, citrus and walnut orchards.

Trap crop

Chervil is used by gardeners to protect vegetable plants from slugs.

United States military ration

From the Revolutionary War to the Spanish-American War, the United States army ration, as decreed by the Continental Congress, was the garrison ration which consisted of meat or salt fish, bread or hardtack, and vegetables.

Vegelate

In some nations, including Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom, some popular chocolate products contain a proportion of vegetable fat (normally up to 5%).

Vinho Verde

Many of these growers train their vines high off the ground, up trees, fences, and even telephone poles so that they can cultivate vegetable crops below the vines that their families may use as a food source.

Yakutpura

Since Madannapet and Mir Alam Mandi vegetable market is close by, shopping choice is abundant as Lad Bazaar, Patthergatti not too far.

Yele Sambat

The new year is celebrated as Maghe Sakranti in Nepal where people eat sweet potato and various kinds of Yam and Sel roti.

Yorkshire pudding

Because the rich gravy from the roast meat drippings was used up with the first course, the main meat and vegetable course was often served with a parsley or white sauce.


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