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It hit the nail on the head when she said "It’s so fun to eat and so beautiful, but what the heck were people doing with it in Isfahan?". Just watched a blog about rural Japan where they went to buy seedlings for their family run cafe garden and there were 20 + varieties off eggplant/aubergine because each one is used in preference for a particular dish or cooking style and the same goes for the preferred typed of pumpkin.

https://youtu.be/ulhD2AE0L-Q?si=Yfqg-l9IUZ0S6-kh

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Wow, amazing. Thank you for sharing! I have read similar things about apple varieties in old Maine: like 8 different trees where the fruit was used in 8 different ways.

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This is such a beautiful idea -- and the name! Chef's kiss! As soon as I get my garden back from the construction project, I want to participate.

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I found three strawberry popcorn ears in a jar in an antique store, not labeled. How shall we grow them? If we do, then what?

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