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Articles Written by: MICHAEL TORTORELLO
Times Topics: Those 3 Radishes Are Priceless
How much time and money have I wasted gardening this spring? It depends on how you define “waste.” When I started planting seeds in March, I promised in my first article to “unleash my inner bean counter” and “keep a strict account” of what I invest in ...
From MICHAEL TORTORELLO, The New York Times, 1 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation, New York Times Company
The Starter Garden: Stalin’s Flower Garden
Associated Press Josef Stalin in a photo dated 1950. Until recently, it wouldn’t have occurred to me that gardening would be a popular pastime for the totalitarian set. But a droll little footnote in a recent biography of Josef Vissarionovich ...
From MICHAEL TORTORELLO, The New York Times, 24 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Jung Chang
Times Topics: Seeds, Water: Check. So Where Are the Plants?
Does anyone have a delectable recipe that calls for a square inch of lettuce? Almost three months after I sowed my first seeds indoors in the sunless depths of March, practically nothing in the garden is growing. A few heads of lettuce that I started ...
From MICHAEL TORTORELLO, The New York Times, 17 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Jackie Smith, New York Times Company
The Starter Garden: The Manure Chronicles
I have no truck with chickens. I don’t eat them and I don’t like them. They are, to my eyes, savage and prehistoric, a fluffier breed of lizard. And yet, on a recent Friday afternoon I had an appointment to keep with 30 of them, on an odd little river ...
From MICHAEL TORTORELLO, The New York Times, 6 May 2009
Related Topics: Home Depot, Inc.
Times Topics: White House Gardens
Aude Guerrucci/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Students from Bancroft Elementary worked with Michelle Obama to plant herbs and vegetables in the White House garden last week. Before the new dog Bo stole the news cycle, Michelle Obama excited and ...
From MICHAEL TORTORELLO, The New York Times, 16 Apr 2009
Related Topics: White House, Michelle Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Gaylord Nelson
The Starter Garden: A Novice in Search of Bounty
TOUGH LOVE The author planted his Imperial Star artichoke seeds early, putting them by a cold window to aid in their growth. His daughter Beas Passover parsley sits nearby. SINCE my girlfriend and I bought a vacant lot in the winter of 2000, it has ...
From MICHAEL TORTORELLO, The New York Times, 1 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Michael Pollan, Cornell University, Jackie Smith
Food Storage as Grandma Knew It
IN a strictly technical sense, Cynthia Worley is not transforming her basement into a time machine. Yet what’s going on this harvest season beneath her Harlem brownstone on 122nd Street, at Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, is surely something out of ...
From MICHAEL TORTORELLO, The New York Times, 5 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Adam Clayton, Daniel Wilson
Road Test: Bless This Hut: The Rise of the Prefab Sukkah
MOD POD The author lifts the roof of the New Panels Sukkah, one of four prefabricated sukkahs, or harvest booths, that he tested for the Jewish holiday Sukkot. WITH the onset of Sukkot, an increasingly popular Jewish harvest holiday that has lately ...
From MICHAEL TORTORELLO, The New York Times, 1 Oct 2008
On Location: Trading New York for Midwest Grit
IN the fall of 2007, Will Hopkins and Mary K. Baumann made what many New Yorkers would consider a puzzling real estate decision. Maybe a crazy one. Having sold their Chelsea office, the veteran graphic designers traded a 2,000-square-foot apartment in ...
From MICHAEL TORTORELLO, The New York Times, 4 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Nora Ephron
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