The scene is peaceful and full of autumn melancholy; gourds loll in the thick scattering of leaves, two little stools display bunches of still-green oregano and basil stuffed in bottle gourds.
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It can also be used to carve gourds and apples.
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The king of gourds is all over fall-related popular culture.
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Stick with Florence Fabricant's new guide to edible gourds (above) instead.
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Pumpkins aren't the only gourds that we should be celebrating come autumn.
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Miniature dried pumpkins offer another chic way to use gourds for decor.
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South Americans have been sharing gourds of mate for thousands of years.
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Some are gourds — hard-shelled, bitter, stringy and suitable only for decoration.
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When the frost lifts, she puts gourds and peppers into the ground.
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They'd pipe wavering love songs on flutes or sing and pluck stringed gourds.
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Pumpkins are the emblem of Halloween, but real gourds can often look cheesy.
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As early as April, competitors start growing their gourds, according to Mr. Wolf.
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Thanksgiving was there, decorative gourds and all, and they all needed to get laid.
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At the center of the marketplace, wooden boxes hold locally grown gourds and apples.
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But TJ's isn't the only market with a love of gourds, cinnamon, apples, and maple.
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So we've decided to scratch the hollowing of gourds altogether and check into some alternatives.
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You're already filling your home with decorative gourds and planning your trip to go apple picking.
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The event featured giant air cannons, catapults, trebuchets, slingshots and other devices launching gourds long distances.
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Pumpkins aren't just gourds for you to stick your head in or carve cat butts into.
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The pumpkins and other autumnal treats — like corn stalks and gourds — are from local Michigan farms.
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First on his list of proposals is a strict deadline for displaying gourds as home decoration.
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But lest you thought it was children or even people squashing the gourds, you would be mistaken.
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Carve your way through these spirited shots of stars getting their gourds for a smashing good time.
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He studied hundreds of textile samples that were found alongside gourds, baskets and mats in the temple.
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Social media will explode with finely carved gourds in the style of Taylor Swift and Donald Trump.
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In addition, I create instruments and decorative objects out of gourds, so this room serves many purposes.
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They rise up at the plumb's top to support three gourds, symbolizing the three branches of government.
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For once, we're not talking about flavored foods; instead, we're getting right into the OG orange gourds themselves.
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But before we all rush out to grab our respective gourds, a pumpkin-prepping refresher is in order.
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And we use hashtags: #nytthanksgiving for birds and dressing, decorative gourds and the like; #nytpies for, well, pies.
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Rather than using real gourds, you can incorporate glass pumpkins into your space for an updated holiday look.
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Gourds, warm flowers, and gold candles served as centerpieces for the ceremony, which took place at 618 Restaurant.
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The researchers compared the genomes and evolutionary trees of a number of plants including cucumbers, melons and gourds.
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I look so cute on your doorstep or window sill or dining room table surrounded by other decorative gourds.
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Musicians with balafons — xylophone-like instruments made with gourds — as well as hand drums and whistles bang out rhythms.
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The shapes these gargantuan gourds take on betray their overfed sedentary lifestyle; they are nothing if not obese pumpkins.
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The little hippo happily chomped up all of her pumpkin pieces, while Mom and Dad gorged on whole gourds.
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Some models donned other-worldly white bonnets, while most displayed an assortment of bags, including some shaped like gourds.
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If you want fall greenery without actually having to buy real gourds, these pumpkin planters are a good compromise.
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While stoned out of our gourds, our "spiritual advisor" Witchbeam blew our minds with the b-side to Low.
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The work combines found and handmade objects, including a glass orb, plastic models of body parts and luffa gourds.
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The other day I sent out a memo titled "Gourds Are Why We Have President Trump" to my 300 coworkers.
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Susan Camp's delightfully creepy gourds, grown with constraining molds into disembodied doll faces, likewise harmonize with the creaky old houses.
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On the day of the contest, the teams have exactly one hour to turn their gourds into works of art.
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Yes, it may officially be pumpkin season, but there's a whole world of gourds out there worth exploring and eating.
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Local legend has it that a Zulu goddess named Marimba first made the instrument by hanging gourds below wooden bars.
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That explains the antlers, plus winter-chic details like white gourds, pine cones, and a Christmas tree decorated by her mother.
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And for Halloween, apparently, we get a cringing pumpkin that warns us about the dangers of slicing up its fellow gourds.
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Nothing quite says "Halloween" like the ritualistic mutilation of gourds, but some Canadians just took things to a whole new level.
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Rather than only using flowers, fall gourds decorated the aisle as well to make the event feel personal and on-theme.
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Gourds, melons, pumpkins and squashes were the vegetables of choice, or carrots and parsnips grown from seed brought by the settlers.
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Ingersoll is eager to show Alkalay the cucumber patch, where the gourds have grown well thanks to the generous summer rainfall.
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If you haven't already decked your house out with pinecones, gourds, and other autumnal accent items, now's the time to start decorating.
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There, a few people stood seemingly high out of their gourds, entranced by the designs the lasers were tracing in the dirt.
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Vegetables such as squash and gourds, apples and anything made from their fruit, seeds, nuts, and corn are all appropriate for the holiday.
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According to Garden America, you can grow gourds in your own backyard via a Luffa plant — and you can, in fact, eat them.
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In the City Line neighborhood of Brooklyn, Bangladeshi immigrants tend a community garden with spinach, winged beans, long beans and bitter melon gourds.
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In the time it took you to scrape out the pumpkin's guts, this team turned their gourds into a spinning, flickering amusement park carousel.
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I am who they call the Empress of Fall — a title I gave myself after purchasing approximately 300 plastic gourds from a basement Michael's.
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Many people think this is because you get to dress up, eat candy and fill your house with decorative gourds, but they are wrong.
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People expect to see orange pumpkins galore throughout October, which is what makes these pale green terracotta gourds by K&K Interiors so enchanting.
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The Keene Pumpkin Festival brings together thousands of kids to carve jack-o'-lanterns and display their artful gourds in the city's downtown square.
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In addition to nibbling tours and aromatherapy Wellness Whiff Walks, guests can try to spot the fairies living in tiny houses made from repurposed gourds.
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To start, she served a gazpacho made from chayote, the squash also known as christophine, in open calabash gourds, nestled on beds of rock salt.
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Sitting on the tables and counters are vaguely humanoid gourds filled with sansho and the spice blend shichimi, as well as pitchers of soy sauce.
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For more than 22009 years he made photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures and assemblages, and collected artifacts (commercial signage, bottle caps, gourds), that reflected this ambivalence.
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In the sun room next to the kitchen, there are heaps of freshly picked apples and gourds, set out in baskets on an old pine table.
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The Taíno people, however, fought back, including making homemade bombs by stuffing hot peppers into gourds, which would erupt into hot-pepper gas, according to Mann.
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Made with wood from the mwenje tree -- found only in this region -- the instrument resembles a xylophone with resonators made from gourds attached beneath each key.
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But if gourds and cinnamon just aren't your thing, the coffee chain has a new latte flavor just in time for the first day of fall.
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A myriad of pumpkins, corn stalks, and decorative gourds flanked two cabins that you'll be able to actually reserve for two-hour time slots for dinner.
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Gathering pumpkins, gourds, a thatch of dried corn to tie to the porch or fire escape in celebration of the harvest and this nation's agrarian past?
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Every surface stretched gleamingly into the distance: the countertops, the professional range, the island with its basket of gourds, French press and sticks of burning Frankincense.
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In accordance with the menu, the décor at Taladwat is pointedly rustic, with communal picnic tables and bags of garlic and dried gourds hanging from the walls.
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On Hallows Eve, to ward off evil spirits like Jack, the Irish used to carve scary faces into turnips and gourds before placing a light in them.
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You'll be able to delicately filet fish, split a chicken cutlet in half, and struggle a little less when cutting through tougher ingredients, like watermelons and gourds.
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A weekend of gourds streaking across the southern Delaware sky like fiery comets, Punkin Chunkin is one of the biggest sporting events in state, second only to NASCAR.
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In the snap, little Dream is posing amid a collection of the fall-favorite gourds, some decorated with elaborate carvings, and flashing an adorable smile at the camera.
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Its appearance on any gourd-shaped object connotes longevity, since gourds are believed to carry elixirs of immortality but also reference fertility due to their abundance in seeds.
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It's the beginning of October, full-blown fall, the time when everything in Portland appears straight out of an L.L.Bean catalog—pumpkins and gourds, jugs of apple cider.
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Hand to God, I have witnessed full-on, "SHE NEEDS HER BUSY BEE"-level meltdowns over something as seemingly chill as a foldable conference table laden with gourds.
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Better yet, cauliflower comes in a brilliant array of autumnal colors, making it a festive addition to the table — a bit like those ubiquitous decorative gourds, but tasty.
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In one of the images, Evans, 26, smiles while holding up the camera, as the couple's 1½-year-old daughter Ensley Jolie examines a large assortment of seasonal gourds.
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Things immediately got "exponentially" more intense, said Matheny, and he was beset by "hardcore saucerheads," and maybe worse, ordinary-seeming people who were just confused out of their gourds.
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The sculpted gourds from the pair of lawmakers were named victors Wednesday at the annual Imagine an Answer to Kids' Brain Cancer Foundation's Monster Mash Pumpkin Bash in Washington.
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Soups of pumpkins, squash, bitter gourds, bay leaves and toasted rice powder, all floating in broth given some funk from prahok, a fermented fish paste elemental to Cambodian cooking.
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" She uses her hands for emphasis: "Our mate gourds are huge, and our straws are broader in the bottom, to better absorb the type of yerba we use there.
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F&W explains that some of krasinthusith's pieces eschew the tradition of flowers and dragons for more abstract work, with swirls, spirals, and spires rising from within gourds and melons.
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Dallos described the festival as "cheeky" and phallic symbolism presented itself in excess, with penile-shaped gourds proffered to the crowd as drinking devices and decorative penises appearing on tractors.
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Musicians with hand drums, whistles and balafons, xylophone-like instruments made with gourds, pound out rhythms while dancers, masked to look like animals and bush spirits, perform and interact with spectators.
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As autumn shivers its way into winter and we trade our sexy Ken Bone costumes for decorative gourds, you may be asking: why is Netflix stocking our queues with animal films?
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Some who came in under the legal limit were obviously unfit to be behind the wheel, while others who were stoned out of their gourds on paper appeared to be unaffected.
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Overlooking this step will first result in funky-tasting mates that absorb the flavors of the container; soon after, these will become moldy mate gourds that need to be thrown away.
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Susan Camp has been working with gourds for 15 years, an offshoot of her efforts to grow her own food at her home in Winterport, Me. She shapes them in molds.
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A few houses up, in Ipu Arts Plus, Karen Root carves and dyes ipu (local gourds) with intricate designs — from abstract motifs to fish and flowers — reviving an ancient Hawaiian art.
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It was about as generic, and idyllic, a political scene as can be imagined: a stage covered in American flags, hay bales and festive gourds to mark the coming of autumn.
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Among those that use natural materials, the most fascinating projects come from organic functions manipulated by humans — things like roots, fungi, and gourds that actually grow into their intended shapes and uses.
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Now, it's nothing to do with stocking your cupboard, really, but we need distraction and I like this guy making instruments out of gourds and covering Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" on YouTube.
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This is the weekend for our annual reading of Colin Nissan's profane 2009 essay about decorative gourds, in McSweeney's, which has shaped up as the "Alice's Restaurant" of post-Boomer Thanksgiving culture.
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No worries, more events like these are scheduled every weekend throughout October, with animals in different areas of the zoo receiving the gift of gourds each time, according to the zoo's Facebook page.
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In Jamaica, the writers Colin Channer and Kwame Dawes collaborated with the producer Justine Henzell in 523 to create the Calabash festival, named after the evergreen tropical tree that bears white-flowered gourds.
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Modersohn-Becker's expressionistic paintings — of nursing mothers, gourds and clay jugs, female nudes, children in forests — are rendered in thick textures and a muted, earthy palette, without a shred of sentimentality or cuteness.
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Here's how Beaumont native and long-term Austinite Kevin Russell, formerly of the Gourds, and currently trucking under the Shinyribs moniker put it: That vibe is getting harder to find in today's Austin.
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It's capable of turning cinder blocks into pebbles, but you can also swap a bowling ball for a watermelon or a pumpkin and turn those gourds into a massively satisfying explosion of pulp.[YouTube]
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Decorative gourds line breakfast tables, fake cobwebs are all over your apartment building, and one of your weird neighbors even took the liberty of hanging up bloodied Barbie dolls in their front lawn tree.
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Let's get you and your home prepped for the big day: Decorating this time of year is comparatively easy: pumpkins and gourds, mums and raffia strands are all hearty, long lasting and readily available.
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He keeps you watching, as do the images of reverberant, often haunting power and beauty, including a fecund garden in which kale, berries and gourds grow in bleak contrast to the ship's laboratory fetuses.
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Pumpkin Spice Lattes and all of their pumpkin-flavored brethren hog the attention when it comes to seasonal fall foods, but don't forget about the humble squash — those delicious edible gourds of hearty goodness.
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Sabogal drew from traditional Andean and popular arts, like engraved mate gourds, to illustrate the magazine's pages, and favored rough-hewn, figurative woodcut prints, a medium allied with international Socialist causes of the time.
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But before even thinking about finalizing your costume plans — we can't decide between going the couples route or repurposing some Savage X Fenty lingerie — get your house in spooky shape with some ghoulish gourds.
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While the childlike Spooky Pumpkin Garden played on the silly side of gourds — cartoonish jack-o'-lanterns mounted atop stick figures flanked the trail — the prizewinning fruit made it clear that big pumpkins are serious business.
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Gringos typically forget a very important step: classic mate gourds made out of pumpkins or wood—typically the most affordable option found at fairs like the San Telmo—have to be cured before their first use.
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But according to the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, no one who receives SNAP benefits can exchange them for tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, or non-food products like vitamins, pet supplies or, uh, inedible or ornamental gourds.
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Here is a video of a man playing Toto's "Africa" on a series of sweet potatoes and gourds that he hand-crafted into musical instruments, which is not how I self-soothe, but maybe it should be.
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Both restaurants, along with the rest of the hotel interiors, were designed by the Ilse Crawford alum Ben Thompson, who opted for green-veined marble tables, midcentury oak chairs and, instead of table vases, decorative gourds. heckfieldplace.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads WASHINGTON, DC — A pair of gourds, a uterus, and the rudder of a boat — these are some of the objects that Jami Porter Lara's slick, black sculptures immediately bring to mind.
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This isn't a bunch of statisticians surveying kids on November 1 to see which candies they plan on eating first, and which ones they'll be leaving at the bottom of their hollowed-out plastic gourds until they're desperate.
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In his waning time, he jokes with his staff about all the "fun" of their daily tasks and counts down the days to his departure by tending to a makeshift pumpkin patch decorated with gourds bearing his likeness.
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"A lot of us are disgusted with what the Democrats have been doing," said Joleen Ballard, 66, who was selling pumpkins and gourds at a fall festival in Toledo, a small town about 70 miles from Des Moines.
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Among his earliest memories is visiting a nearby farm with his father when he was 239 or 25 years old and picking up leftover Halloween pumpkins and gourds—with their mind-blowing shapes and colors—that littered the field.
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Its small restaurants and shacks selling carved mate gourds and seashell mobiles are pushed up from the sea in a semicircle, looking out onto rocks and waves that start accumulating surfers when the wind picks up in the evenings.
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This is one of the most comprehensive surveys of her work in decades, with six of her "Infinity Mirror" rooms (including "All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins," starring acrylic yellow gourds), sculpture and works on paper.
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Not because delicious meatless dishes at outdoor occasions aren't a possibility — but more so because the ones we're used to seeing are usually limited to sides (pasta salads and grilled gourds), as opposed to the main attraction (hello, burgers and dogs).
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And while we're delighted about that development, we can't help but aspire to be more like northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, where the country's best marijuana grows wild—right next to crops of flowers, bitter gourds, papayas, mangoes, and rice.
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At the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers Weigh-Off, just one of many annual pumpkin competitions that happen in the US, giant gourds are the stars of the show, and farmers compete to see who can claim the winning title.
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But those who do take a moment to visit at this time of year will find multicolored mums and marigolds; ornamental peppers in oranges and yellows and reds; pumpkins in oranges and whites and greens; and gourds, with or without warts.
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The wild food includes bamboo shoots rich in protein, wild mushrooms, spine gourds and bean vines that proliferate on sturdy trees, as well as iron-rich spinach that wards off anemia, a major health concern for rural women and children.
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MAC's glittery Holiday 2017 collection has officially been revealed, and the products look so good that I'm on the verge of tossing out all of my decorative gourds to make room for the bevy of eyeshadows and lipsticks I'm looking to buy.
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To feed that national enthusiasm, every year American farmers grow a whopping billion pounds of pumpkin—gourds ranging from tiny Munchkins weighing less than a pound to heftier varieties like Grower's Giants, Monster Smashes, and Prizewinners that clock in at well over 100.
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It can be spiritually satisfying to bring elements of nature into your home whenever the seasons change (think about all those decorative gourds you bring home during autumn or the evergreen boughs we associate with December), and the summer solstice is no exception.
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Now 24 and living in New York, she has channeled her passion into a line of offbeat candles — which also take the shape of gourds, squash, zucchini and sugar apples — dyed shades of chartreuse, violet and pink and rendered with irregular textures.
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The couple briefly connected online in 2013 after a mutual friend tweeted a profanity-laced column (about decorative gourds and the arrival of fall) from the McSweeney's daily humor website to her followers; Ms. Crosby had shared this column with her friend initially.
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Buzzfeed just uncovered some facts about those natural loofahs (not the synthetic ones you'd pick up at the dollar store; rather, the kind that resembles the coral you'd find at the bottom of the sea), and it turns out the material actually comes from dried-out gourds.
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I know, it can't possibly be the end of October already, but by next weekend it will be fully November and while the straw bales and decorative gourds can stay, the fake cobwebs and jack-o-lanterns have got to go before the latter starts rotting.
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October is finally here, and with it comes an onslaught of pumpkin-spiced foods that nobody asked for, decorative gourds all over the flat surfaces of your grandmother's house, and of course the Jungwinzerinnen Kalender—Young Female Winemakers Calendar—Austria's answer to the Sports Illustrated issue (sort of).
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By contrast there is the zig-zag path that underscored those who would deviate from the humble and simple way of living, and the three earth-shattering events — two of them being the two gourds of ash that fell on Japan in WWII — and our separation from nature.
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The couple undertook an expansion of the French-style house in the 1940s, ordering an Aztec-inspired extension from Juan O'Gorman (better known for his astounding mosaics at Mexico City's main university) and decorating it with indigenous stone statuary, papier-mâché figurines, painted gourds and a healthy mix of pets.
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Straßenbräu: Order a vanilla milk stout on nitro, a tart ale infused with wild berries, or a pumpkin seasonal brewed with gourds grown by owner Timo Thoennissen's mom, and try to get a seat at the bar to pick Thoennissen's brain on anything—we mean anything—related to the history and business of German beer.
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A demo called "Unstoppable" tells the legend of Maui, the Polynesian demigod, in a spoken-word cadence that can now only be described as Hamiltonian: "Abandoned by his parents and raised by the gods/Who could see he was destined for greatness," Mr. Miranda begins, against a polyrhythmic clatter of gourds and log drums.
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In order to be the drone-based logistics layer for all restaurants, they set up outposts in far-flung cities like Los Angeles, Boston and Austin, TX. Inspired by gourds used to serve $14 artisanal yerba maté at a Mission District cantina they often frequented, Jack designed and began manufacturing a line of modular packaging that could contain everything from ramen to breakfast tacos.
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But among the photographs of flooded streets and shattered houses there are pictures of hope and defiance, flickering videos of neighbors jamming in the dark, banging on whatever they can use as drums, scraping sound from the carved gourds called güiros, and singing improvised verses about roofs that flew away, 10-hour lines for gas, and farms flattened into the mud, laughing as they join in on a chorus about how everything is good.
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It took her some time to appreciate the hushed, humble beauty of her mother's food that she now devours when she visits Toledo: giloda, a dish of tiny, scarlet ivory gourds with the taste of bitter melon, dry-sautéd with potatoes, turmeric, and a few spurts of ketchup; ravaiya, baby eggplants stuffed with cumin, coriander, and peanuts and roasted in an oven; masala chass, a salty lassi of yogurt and salt along with a drizzle of garlic, cumin seeds, or curry leaves and oil that's mixed vigorously into the solution.
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