Edible Education with the Plan Z Diet
By: Zola
Chief Dieter
Plan Z Diet
Used to be that if you picked anything from a public garden you could get yourself arrested.
It’s not always that way these days.
I don’t recommend you start picking things from your local public garden, but in some cases you can participate in what’s going on in the garden and be able to “consume” your education.
Take Chicago for example. In Chicago you can go to the Regenstein Garden and attend a chef series. They do cooking demos with items from the garden. Herbs can be ornamental one day and then they might find themselves as a feature in a sauce. Gale Gand, pastry chef extraordinaire gives cooking demos at the Regenstein Garden and then she offers up the recipes to go with the discussions. Check out www.chicagobotanic.org.
Live in Atlanta? There they have an old parking lot that is now a garden with an outdoor kitchen. Local chefs do cooking classes. YUM: www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org.
Here’s a cute one. In New Orleans they have a new city program that educates kids about how to plant and tend a vegetable garden. They get to do tastings too! I got my early start with this helping my mother tend the rhubarb patch. We had tomato plants out back of the house too. I’ll also never forget the year my brother dug up the area behind the garage and planted potatoes! I don’t recall eating one potato but I do remember the potato patch: www.neworleanscitypark.com.
One more.
In San Francisco there’s a place called Arcimboldo’s Edible Garden. What a great name. Arcimboldo was a 16th century painter. I bet he never envisioned his name on a garden, although he specialized in doing portraits made out of fruits, vegetable, etc. it’s something you have to see to believe. Quite creative. Google Guiseppe Arcimboldo and read all about him. You can go to the Arcimboldo Garden and take a cooking class or watch a cooking demo at www.sfbotanicalgarden.org.
Cheers,
Used to be that if you picked anything from a public garden you could get yourself arrested.
It’s not always that way these days.
I don’t recommend you start picking things from your local public garden, but in some cases you can participate in what’s going on in the garden and be able to “consume” your education.
Take Chicago for example. In Chicago you can go to the Regenstein Garden and attend a chef series. They do cooking demos with items from the garden. Herbs can be ornamental one day and then they might find themselves as a feature in a sauce. Gale Gand, pastry chef extraordinaire gives cooking demos at the Regenstein Garden and then she offers up the recipes to go with the discussions. Check out www.chicagobotanic.org.
Live in Atlanta? There they have an old parking lot that is now a garden with an outdoor kitchen. Local chefs do cooking classes. YUM: www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org.
Here’s a cute one. In New Orleans they have a new city program that educates kids about how to plant and tend a vegetable garden. They get to do tastings too! I got my early start with this helping my mother tend the rhubarb patch. We had tomato plants out back of the house too. I’ll also never forget the year my brother dug up the area behind the garage and planted potatoes! I don’t recall eating one potato but I do remember the potato patch: www.neworleanscitypark.com.
One more.
In San Francisco there’s a place called Arcimboldo’s Edible Garden. What a great name. Arcimboldo was a 16th century painter. I bet he never envisioned his name on a garden, although he specialized in doing portraits made out of fruits, vegetable, etc. it’s something you have to see to believe. Quite creative. Google Guiseppe Arcimboldo and read all about him. You can go to the Arcimboldo Garden and take a cooking class or watch a cooking demo at www.sfbotanicalgarden.org.
Cheers,
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