Friday, October 23, 2009

Purple carrots and green tomatoes...



I love the great variety of fruits and vegetables offered here in Quebec! Apparently there are over 60 varieties of carrots native to North America, but we normally only find the orange kind at the grocery store. I guess it's not as profitable for farmers to grow these kinds of things because people probably find them "weird", or think they're genetically modified. Ironically, a lot of the food we think is "normal" is probably genetically modified.

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  1. oh did you buy those at the Jean Talon Market? i bought myself some rainbow carrots there too last time i was there!!

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  2. holsten- nope! i just got them at the IGA near my house. I love Jean Talon Market though....they have amazing things!

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  3. Purple Carrots are my favorite! So much so their in the title of my blog. Haha!emiliedwolf.blogspot.com
    I wish I was back in Montreal, I miss the snow. I'm in Va Beach at the moment and Autumn doesn't seem the exist, at least not the way I know it.

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  4. awesome designs!!
    by the way, purple carrots?! i gotta try!

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  5. My grandpa used to grow all kinds of vegetables and I remember some of his carrots being purple. He used to tell me purple carrots were sunburnt. I think he was lying to me...

    www.goldleafashley.blogspot.com

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  6. Oh God... I need this so much... I'll search at my IGA!

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