{"id":379,"date":"2006-02-01T06:28:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T06:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=379"},"modified":"2006-02-01T06:28:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T06:28:20","slug":"food_for_though-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought, Feb. 01\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone&#8230;if you&#8217;re looking for my wife Ramona&#8217;s Lasagna Project blog, click <a href=\"http:\/\/pacificpalate.typepad.com\/the_lasagna_project\/\">here<\/a>.&nbsp; She promises she&#8217;ll write again soon!&nbsp; After all, a new month means a new lasagna&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Kiwi Squeeze<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_1333.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_1333\" height=\"149\" alt=\"Img_1333\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_1333.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> Last weekend I attended the Kiwi Squeeze at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marleyfarm.ca\/\">Marley Farms <\/a>on the Saanich Peninsula on Vancouver Island.&nbsp; The folks there make grape wines and fruit wines, and are becoming well-known for their kiwi wines and vinegars.&nbsp; I also tasted a Kiwi Solera, an aged sherry-style beverage that is just now coming out of the barrels after two years of aging.&nbsp; Delicious.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_1331.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_1331\" height=\"149\" alt=\"Img_1331\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_1331.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> At the Kiwi Squeeze, dozens of volunteers sit at tables and squeeze locally-grown kiwis, one by one at tiny electric orange juicers.&nbsp; And they love doing it!<\/p>\n<p>Beverley Marley is the family matriarch.&nbsp; She grew up in Jamaica&#8230;her husband is the first cousin-once removed of the late, great musician Bob Marley!&nbsp; Here&#8217;s Beverley with her grandson, whom she claims has the famous Marley profile!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/img_1334.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Img_1334\" height=\"266\" alt=\"Img_1334\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/img_1334.JPG\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone&#8230;if you&#8217;re looking for my wife Ramona&#8217;s Lasagna Project blog, click here.&nbsp; She promises she&#8217;ll write again soon!&nbsp; After all, a new month means a new lasagna&#8230;. The Kiwi Squeeze Last weekend I attended the Kiwi Squeeze at Marley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though-17\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}