The Garden Kitchen

For many weeks I've been pondering how to make a tapestry [pictorial quilt] on the subject of whole-foods, plant based eating. Visually, vegetables are beautiful, but just a series of vegetables & fruits would be boring. There needed to be a story.

Mentally this morning I was writing to my mom, and thinking how to talk about the diet thing, and came up with some whimsy which might work well for a quilt. It also has kind of a children's book sound.

In The Garden Kitchen
We Eat:

Avocados, not Armadillos
Beets, not Bears
Cherries, not Camels
Dandelions, not Duckbills
Escarole, not Escargot
Figs, not Flamingos
Gooseberries, not Giraffes
Huckleberries, not Hedgehogs
Ices, not Iguanas
Jam, not Jellyfish
Kale, not Koalas
Lettuce, not Llamas
Mushrooms, not Mice
Nectarines, not Newts
Onions, not Owls
Peaches, not Pandas
Quinoa, not Quail
Radishes, not Rhinos
Squash, not Snakes
Tomatoes, not Turtles
Watermelon, not Walruses
Yams, not Yaks
Zweiback, not Zebras
Violets, not Vultures

and I challenge anyone to come up with an edible starting with U.

Pearl likes the idea, and I set her to doing the artwork.