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National Artichoke Day 2018
[Quote=]Who knew we have a special day to praise artichokes? :-) So what do we know about this beautiful plant?
Let´s take a look at the history and legends of artichokes:
According to an Aegean legend and praised in song by the poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the first artichoke was a lovely young girl who lived on the island of Zinari.
Zeus was visiting his brother Poseidon one day when, as he emerged from the sea, he spied a beautiful young mortal woman.
She did not seem frightened by the presence of a god, and Zeus seized the opportunity to seduce her.
He was so pleased with the girl, who’s name was Cynara, that he decided to make her a goddess, so that she could be nearer to his home on Olympia.
Cynara agreed to the promotion, and Zeus anticipated the trysts to come, whenever his wife Hera was away.
However, Cynara soon missed her mother and grew homesick. She snuck back to the world of mortals for a brief visit.
After she returned, Zeus discovered this un-goddess-like behavior.
Enraged, he hurled her back to earth and transformed her into the plant we know as the artichoke.
The artichoke is one of the oldest cultivated vegetable written about. Pedanius Dioscorides (40-90 A.D.), a 1st century A.D. Greek physician of Anazarbus, Cilicia, wrote about artichokes at the time of Christ. While traveling as a surgeon with the Roman army of Emperor Nero, he collected information on the remedies of the period and wrote a work on The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides. Originally written in Greek, Dioscorides’ herbal was later translated into Latin as De Materia Medica. It remained the authority in medicinal plants for over 1500 years!
Ancient Greeks and Romans considered artichokes a delicacy and an aphrodisiac.
Wealthy Romans enjoyed artichokes prepared in honey and vinegar, seasoned with cumin, so that the treat would be available year round.
Nowadays, nearly one hundred percent of all artichokes grown commercially in the United States are grown in California. Marilyn Monroe was the first official California Artichoke Queen in 1949. Sounds strange? Yet artichokes are pretty thistle-like plants, look how beautiful they are:
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Artichoke Birthday Party
Such a gorgeous plant should have a sparkling birthday party 🍰 with rejoicing and embraces!
Contest: Private Outfit
Design a HA depicting an artichoke in color or / and vegetation or take a piece out of the lore portrayed above and design a fitting HA! Have fun! End date: midnight today Subeta time
🎁 Prize Gallery with artichoke colored items 🎉 [item=Wedding Customs: Peka Glade]
PLEASE POST YOUR ENTRIES HERE:
Your entry is the prettiest I've ever seen! It's got all the most beautiful colors!
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It´s an artichoke dressed up for an evening party, hehe. Even artichokes have hearts! <3
How are you today, love? ^-^
You are so fun!! :-D Are you doing well? Ears up and happy, dearheart?
Well, I'm not awake very long because I finally took your advice to stay in bed for a couple of days. This is day half. lol I need to have my ribs heal and get blood to the little bit of muscle to the area. Still fighting sadness.
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that's so much info that i didnt know! i love artichokes but had no clue of the history, super interesting. and now i have to try the roman style recipe, sounds yummy! your ha entry has such beautiful colors <3
When I stay in bed I always take my laptop with me, LOL. And a good book. And some candy. I hope you have it all! Get well soon! <3
Thank you so much, I am always happy when the activities are interesting. I thought it nice that we have a point of contact with the Ludi Roman Contest here also.
Hi new friend! Yes, is amazingly creative in making contests and also making her gorgeous HA.
I see you're another one who is awesome at makng great HA too!! Will you enter this one or the Roman one or maybe both?
I think as long as I'm feeling up to it, I would like to enter the artichoke one. It will be the first time ever entering. eek!!
Right now I'm forced to use my husband's tablet since he finally inadvertently broke mine. He is very picky where I use it. He thinks I will break it. He's broken EVERY computer, tablet etc.... that I've purchased. How can someone tell ME to be careful? Oooops, sorry for the rant. lol
You have a sweet tooth, yes? What are your favorites that you keep with you and what are your special treat? As for me, I do like sweet but more like strawberries, peaches. I prefer salty like crisps, chips etc....
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I am looking forward to your contest entry, love! ^-^
Oh, not especially a sweet tooth in general. Yet when it comes to candies, I love ones that have a soft cor, like Nimm 2. The company doesn´t export them out of Germany, their name in English would be "Take 2". They are fruit candies in orange or lemon and they have a filling out of fruit juice and honey which is a little bit thick and sticky like honey comes:
I also like chocolate-mint candies very much. And salted liquorice.
ive been pretty busy with art stuffs so i need to catch up on the current ha themes c: how are you doing though? oh nimm 2 - it's so good and now i want some too
hello there! im thinking about entering both c: it takes me forever to make one ha though, so we will have to see how it goes. and thank you! i really love the bg so i wanted to make something from it. i really like yours too though - i love pastels
Come over, I always have Nimm 2 in the house, LOL ^-^
For the Roman contests, it´s still a lot of time, they end on Festival of Luna day which is 31th of March.
No dear, when you weren't looking I took all but 2 of your Nimm 2 candies. You're right, they are really yummy!! ;-) tee hee
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That was nice you left 2, so I can offer one to now, LOL ^-^
You read my mind!! LOL I'm very sorry I couldn't leave you more.
I promise you both that I will pay you back for the candies. The faerie I was riding was impatient & wouldn't take me to the shoppe but now I will do it and hmmmm.... What will I find? ;-)
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Resting not shopping is your task of the day, love! <3 LOL
Thx so much dor the pastilles, they remind me of some candies we had in my childhood! <3
aww thank you so much! i had forgotten to grab some this morning when i went to the store c:
im working on entries for both themes now and im already excited!
I'm in bed and . I have no clue what you are saying. hahaa You're welcome, dearheart. It's truly my pleasure. <3
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I am sure your ideas will be wonderful! ^-^
That´s the meaning of the word patient, LOL ^-^
I have a couple of questions. Where do we submit the HA and do we have to own the items we use?
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