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Post by canadamike on Mar 24, 2008 4:17:40 GMT -5
I know the vendors in Ottawa, most are french, half of them named Clairoux LOL
The vendor in TO was an elderly ( very) chinese who barely could speak english, obviously an immigrant. I suspect he was growing them in his backyard, he had only a couple of them to sell.
He was sitting in the steet with his very little table in front of a real fruit store.
And the question, my dear, was not silly at all. LOL
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Post by pugs on Jan 11, 2009 1:14:11 GMT -5
Did you ever find another one of this squash? It sounds too pretty to let it escape our attention.
Pugs
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Post by canadamike on Jan 11, 2009 1:30:01 GMT -5
No, and it still haunts me. It is really the most beautiful vegetable I have seen in my life. You're cruel  Now I won't sleep for a week... why do you torture me like that? I have been nice, I put the dishes in the dishwasher and my dirty underwear doesn't end up piling under the bed anymore...  |
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Post by orflo on Jan 11, 2009 2:18:07 GMT -5
Did you check this, Michel: cucurbitophile.ovh.org/gnr/009.phpit's in French, you won't have any problem with it, just click on 'maxima' or 'pepo' orwhatever you would like to see and you'll get a decent overview of pictures and all sort of varieties.... (it's also a very good site for other cucurbitaceae...!) |
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Post by canadamike on Jan 11, 2009 2:35:55 GMT -5
YES MY FRIEND, I HAVE BEEN ALL OVER...
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jan 11, 2009 9:05:24 GMT -5
You'll just have to make the trip to the St. Lawrence market again and hope that he is there...
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Post by bunkie on Jan 11, 2009 9:37:38 GMT -5
could it be some type of Asian variety michel, since you said the man was Chinese?
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Post by Hristo on Jan 11, 2009 11:52:33 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Jan 11, 2009 12:00:03 GMT -5
No hristo, it was a purple beauty I saw at the chinese public market on Spadina Street in Toronto. The old chinese man selling it could only very hardly say the price in english. It was like a perfectly shaped MUSQUÉE DE PROVENCE but with a glorious mauve/purple skin...
MY both arms were full of stuff, I was hurt in one leg, so I decided to come back the next day to get some...but I could not...
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Post by Hristo on Jan 11, 2009 12:28:39 GMT -5
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Post by Hristo on Jan 11, 2009 12:35:15 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Jan 11, 2009 14:03:36 GMT -5
No, I added the word mauve because purple tends to look black when dark. Imagine a dark purple , which is in fact super dark mauve, but where you can see it tends to show you some mauve hue. In the sequence mauve-purple-black, most deep purple is purple black. This one was purple mauve... I tend to see dark purple as '' black with a purple hue'' this was ''deep purple with a mauve hue''. I guess deep mauve would describe it better. That is why paint companies now name all their variable colour tones with names like ''Autumn poetry '' Nobody can argue that ;D |
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Post by Hristo on Jan 11, 2009 14:40:06 GMT -5
That is relly unique squash! What a miss! I understand your pain. Hope you will recover someday  Such squash can't hide forever.... |
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Post by canadamike on Jan 11, 2009 16:03:59 GMT -5
AAAAAARRRRGGGGGH! Let's change subject before I shoot myself  I swear the next time I see something that exceptional I jump on it NOW! |
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