Article: Food that melted his heart; SIMON MET HIS FUTURE MOTHER-IN-LAW... AND BEGAN A LOVE AFFAIR WITH INDIAN FOOD For most men cooking with your mother-in-law would be a recipe for disaster, but Simon Daley and Roshan Hirani hit it off so well that they have brought out a new Indian cookery book. Lifestyle Editor ZOE CHAMBERLAIN reports.(Features)

Article: Showcase of Chinese folk arts
New Straits Times;  January 4, 2005 ;     322 words ......the art of knotting, paper-cutting, bottle gourd- carving, snuff bottle- painting, constructing...history of over 2,000 years. As for the bottle gourd, it has always been a valuable item...medicine. People also like to keep the bottle gourd partly because, in Mandarin, it is ...

Article: Gourd cultivation on canal land gaining popularity, THE INDEPENDENT
The Independent (Bangladesh);  August 1, 2001 ;     192 words ......CHAPAINAWABGANJ, July 31: Cultivation of bottle gourd, a popular vegetable, over canals...land. According to this method bottle gourd can be produced without taking any care. Anyone can sow a seed of bottle gourd near a canal and make a bamboo...

Article: Kew Archivist, Hew Prendergast, explains the use of the bottle gourd throughout history. (The Uses Of Plants).(Brief Article)
Geographical;  November 1, 2001 ;     95 words ...Archaeological remains suggest the independent use of the bottle gourd Lagenaria siceraria in the Americas by 9,000-15...Since many such utensils are becoming less used, bottle gourd cultivation and genetic diversity may also decline...

Article: BOTTLE GOURD DOMESTICATED EARLY IN THE NEW WORLD
The Boston Globe;  December 26, 2005 ;     188 words ...If the dog is man's best friend, then the bottle gourd, perhaps, is second best. A new scientific analysis of...from Africa, carried by ocean currents. BOTTOM LINE: The bottle gourd came to the Americas with the first settlers, at least...

Article: GERMANY-AGRICULTURE-HARVEST-OFFBEAT
Getty Images;  September 3, 2008 ;     66 words ...GERMANY-AGRICULTURE-HARVEST-OFFBEAT Full Size JPG (1478 KB) A farmer harvest African bottle gourd in a garden in the eastern German town of Phillippsthal on September 3, 2008. The African bottle gourd was one of the first cultivated plants in the world, grown not...

Article: Help our feathered friends with bottle gourd birdhouses
New Haven Register;  May 29, 2009 ;     458 words ......thousands of years ago. For those who might want to try making their own bottle gourd birdhouses, here are a few tips: A--Once you have planted and tended your bottle gourd vine, you will need to dry the gourds. They can be left on the vine through...

Article: ANCIENT GOURD OFFERS NEW VIEW OF EARLY AMERICANS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 28, 2006 ;     553 words ......crop. "We discovered three pieces of bottle gourd in a 9,000-year-old fishing site in...Unlike that of the tougher domestic bottle gourd, the rind of the wild version proved...Genetic testing of the oldest samples of bottle gourd seeds showed that the New World samples...

Article: Vegetable dip, may fall further on fresh arrival.
PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.;  April 19, 2008 ;     273 words ......34 per kg a fortnight back. Price of bottle gourd has slipped from Rs 17 to Rs 7.90 per...in prices of tomato, brinjal, beans, bottle gourd and cucumbur to sufficient seasonal...Yadav said. Yadav expected the prices of bottle gourd, cucumber, tinda and kakdi to dip in...

Article: GOURDS DECORATE HER LIFE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 26, 1994 ;     700+ words ......Summit's favorite for crafts is the bottle gourd because of its varied shape. She also...gourds will make more dipper gourds and bottle gourd seeds lead to more bottle gourds. The...case, she cut a hole in the side of a bottle gourd, then punched holes around the edge...

Article: Now, farm products high on pesticide contents
The Hindustan Times;  September 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ......his routine every morning spraying his bottle gourd field on the outskirts of Agra, with...chemical Oxitoxin in the newly grown bottle gourd locally known as locky, he has broken...but when one sees a small-newly grown bottle gourd become twice the size overnight, eyes...

Article: The legend of Mengjiangnu: no manmade rules could separate these lovers.
Dig;  October 1, 2006 ;     318 words ......Meng and Jiang, lived happily side by side. Meng grew a bottle gourd in his garden and the vines climbed to Jiang's garden. The...the wonderful plant and, in autumn, it produced a beautiful bottle gourd. Meng and Jiang cut the gourd in half and--surprise--out...

Article: Straight and marrow
The Sunday Herald;  July 2, 2000 ;     517 words ......Siciliano was either Kyoto, a Japanese cucumber, or it was a bottle gourd. Nothing else appeared to match it for size. But the details...soft stripes and cucumbery warts in Phillips's pictures. The bottle gourd was a better match, indeed it looked exactly right without...

Article: DNA study points to Kon Tiki theory -- briefly
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  April 1, 2003 ;     535 words ......Polynesia, like the existence in Polynesia of the sweet potato and the bottle gourd, dating from prehistoric times. Both are crops of South American...explaining the prehistoric contacts that carried the sweet potato and bottle gourd to the islands.

Article: SOUTHERN TAIWAN RESEARCHERS DEVELOP SIX NEW VEGETABLE STRAINS.
AsiaPulse News;  November 27, 2007 ;     307 words ......Kaohsiung No. 1 and No. 2 eggplant strains, Kaohsiung No. 1 bottle gourd strain, and Kaohsiung No. 2 luffa strain. Huang said these...tastes good in addition to maturing early. The new-strain bottle gourd has a fine texture and will not turn brown during cooking...