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This week, too good to eat. The British government’s recommendation that we eat five portions of fruit and veg a day has been great news for smug vegetarians, as well as the general boom in - if not healthy eating – the marketing of food as healthy.Despite all that, even if you've finally bought into the idea of fruit and vegetables, remembering to eat your “five a day” can be tough - especially if you live a busy modern lifestyle with mountains of RSS feeds to keep on top of. But worry not! Computer-bound scurvy sufferers can use HassleMe (sadly nothing to do with The Hoff) to send an email reminder to eat herbivore foodstuffs at a random time every day. To maintain such a healthy habit will require more expenditure on plant matter. Thankfully, a group of American artists has a cunning plan: collaborate with friends to locate all the places that fallen fruit is available in your area and plot it on a map, then enjoy juicy but probably slightly bruised and wasp-infested crops for free. Who knows, if you gather enough fruit and veg, you might have enough for an orchestra. Perhaps yours could be the first true competition for the improbably accomplished Vienna Vegetable Orchestra - if you dare to challenge the masters of the “leek violin”, “celeriac bongos” and… “beans”. Alternatively, you could see what noise the “cucumberphone” will make as you viciously snap it in two like a neck or something. That's what Foley artists get to do all day long, especially in the field of violent videogames, as the sound designers on Dark Sector enthusiastically demonstrate. Not that enjoying fruit and veg always has to be about scavenging and gore. They can be the source of playful fun too. A brief browse through the (online) World Carrot Museum will show you that. It aims to help you “discover the power of carrots” via features that include the strangely compelling Mr Carrot Head, and sightings of carrots in fine art. Even contemporary art gets a look-in. Why not construct your own real-life tribute to Till Nowak’s CGI vegetable reconstruction of Giger’s Alien? That’s all very well, but if you’re a traditionalist, you might want nothing more from your food than a nice meal. And that’s fair enough: A Veggie Venture should provide ample inspiration.
David Thair
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 useful linkswww.fallenfruit.org www.gemueseorchester.org www.carrotmuseum.co.uk a veggie venture blog
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