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When books collide! The tagged book has a whole chapter on orangeries and the other has a significant scene take place in the orangerie at the palace of Versailles (a location specifically mentioned in the first book)! A fun overlap of two extremely different books I happen to read at the same time! 🍊
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This prompt reminded me that I want to read this one! Especially because I grew up in Florida in the town where Tropicana orange juice was made! 🍊
so-soThere‘s an interesting microhistory here, but there is also misogyny, racism, classism and utter cluelessness too. It‘s like being stuck with an older relative who is talking about something interesting and then casually says something terrible. For McPhee and the men he interviews the history of oranges is Florida based and white, and wealthy, and male.
I haven't read this yet but I've got it on order from the library, based entirely on a quote from the book I read somewhere that keeps popping into my head for no reason:
Citrus does not come true from seed. What this means is: If you plant an orange seed, a grapefruit might come up. If you plant a seed of that grapefruit, you might get a bitter lemon.
#BatBrigade #scarathlonphotochallenge #Orange @clwojick @staycurious @catsandbooks
Went for a covid booster, treated myself at the local independent bookstore. Inadvertently only bought orange books
Well…still reading this one but at least it has an orange cover 🤣! It‘s actually pretty good but I‘ve had the hardest time concentrating on physical reading. Thank god for audiobooks! #scarathlondailyprompts #orange #scarathlon2022 #teamslaughter
Thought this one was so cute!😊 #poetrymatters @Eggs @TheSpineView #scarathlon #teamslaughter @Clwojick
@britt_brooke thanks for the tag- my lovely orange folio edition of The Gastronomical Me by MFK Fisher💖 ok tagging @Chrissyreadit @rubyslippersreads @sisilia if you want to play- how about Green!
The few #orange books I own and only one would fit in as a #Scarathlon theme - Annihilation trilogy.
#ChillingPhotoChallenge #TeamStoker
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Day 7 of #ChillingPhotoChallenge I found this cute little “orange” getting ready for Halloween on Google.
#Scarathlon #TeamStoker @TheReadingMermaid
Some #orange from my shelves. And for #InternationalWomensDay all except Andre Agassi‘s memoir have a woman author or coauthor. #readingresolutions #marchinbooks @Jess7 @maich
pickA fascinating micro-history of oranges and orange growers, first published in 1967. Lovely, lively, humorous writing style. I thoroughly enjoyed this! Samin Nosrat recommended it in Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and I had some difficulty finding a copy but fortunately was able to get one on interlibrary loan. 🍊❤️
In 1529 the Archbishop of Milan gave a 16-course dinner that included caviar & oranges fried with sugar & cinnamon, brill & sardines with slices of orange & lemon, 1,000 oysters with pepper & oranges, lobster salad with citrons, sturgeon in aspic covered with orange juice, fried sparrows with oranges, individual salads containing citrons into which the coat of arms of the diner had been carved, orange fritters, candied peels of citrons & oranges …
Fresh orange juice [in contrast to frozen concentrate] is probably less consistent in flavour than any other natural or fermented drink, with the possible exception of wine.
It is difficult to walk in the orange groves because you sink to your shins in sand. All of Florida was under water 50 million years ago and the Ridge is the remains of a string of submarine hills. Clay and limestone are under the sand, but the sand is about 20 feet deep.
Okay, this is only tangentially related to books, but reading Oranges has me paying more attention to citrus of all kinds. At the Granville Island Market I came across these unusual teeny tiny finger limes and bought one. One! It cost $3.90. I hope the taste will be worth it. Are any of you familiar with these?
Most citrus trees consist of two parts. The upper framework, called the scion, is one kind of citrus, and the roots and trunk, called the rootstock, are another. In Florida, most orange trees have lemon roots. In California, nearly all lemon trees are grown on orange roots.
Scientists wanted seeds in order to grow a virus-free strain and they "cut up 1,885 Persian Limes and found no seeds at all. So they went to a concentrate plant and filled 2 dump trucks with pulp" & "found 250 seeds and planted them. Up from those lime seeds came sweet orange, bitter orange, grapefruit, lemon, tangerine, limequats, citrons—and two seedlings which proved to be Persian Limes."
[Certain orange types] when they are harvested, are usually green as grass. They have to be ripe, because an orange will not continue to ripen after it has been picked. Many other fruits—apples & pears for example—go on ripening for weeks after they leave the tree. Their flesh contains a great deal of starch & as they go on breathing (all fruit breathes until it dies & should be eaten before it is dead) they gradually convert the starch to sugar.
Citrus does not come true from seed. If you plant an orange seed, a grapefruit might spring up. If you plant a seed of that grapefruit, you might get a bitter lemon.
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I put all the entries from the #ORANGEYOUGLAD giveaway into the random name generator and @PandaPanda won! Thanks to everyone for participating. I'm rolling out giveaways all weekend so stay tuned! 🎉📚😘
GIVEAWAY #3: Next up: books with orange covers! To win all six, make a post about a book with an orange cover, use the hashtag #ORANGEYOUGLAD, and tag me in the photo. Do this by 3pm EST (April 22nd), and I'll randomly select one winner. (US only, sorry.) Good luck! 🍊 🍊🍊
