Apartment Therapy Tagged: strange

Posts tagged “strange”

Ingredient Spotlight: Mashua

Mashua is a perennial plant that produces colorful flowers and a beautiful climbing vine that hummingbirds and gardeners love. Underneath the soil is an edible deliacy. The tuber of mashua was cult...

October 6, 2009 02:00PM
Kathryn Hill

Ingredient Spotlight: Oca

Every so often in a specialty shop or farmer's market, I see this strange tuber. It's smallish, waxy, and brightly-colored. It's called oca, and it's one of the lost crops of the Incas....

September 18, 2009 02:45PM
Kathryn Hill

What Can You Do With Unusual Preserves?

Sometimes when I am traveling, I find a local market or farm stand. I like to seek out regional delicacies that I can take home. Sometimes I come across a jar of something really interesting, but it...

June 18, 2009 04:00PM
Kathryn Hill

Is That Grass Fed Beef In Your Pocket?

Has anyone bought meat from La Cense Beef? We're asking because the construction site across the street from the Apartment Therapy offices is covered in these posters directing passers-by to winagra...