Unbelievable? vegetables for sale, not in normal local markets, but the elegant showrooms of Sotheby's in Manhattan ...... $ 1000, that '€ 1280 approx cassette. Caution, do you think the auction, on 23 September, will not be the usual produce, but very special plant, such as the Turkish orange that looks like a tomato or pumpkin-shaped pink banana.
None of them, and 'the result of crosses genetici.Nessun GM, on the contrary. It is absolutely organic products, the cultivation of strictly biological 'but was' abandoned over the years or not' convenient from an economic standpoint. Or simply vegetables rare and little known to the general public.
this auction at Sotheby's called 'The art of cultivating', calling together all the small businesses involved in defending these products excluded from large retailers, but the taste unbeatable. It 's the first time in its history, the Wall Street Journal points out that an auction house so' authoritative offers its wealthy clients pumpkins, carrots and eggplants, instead of the usual paintings, jewelry or memorabilia.
The proceeds of the sale will go to charity for a development project that aims to help immigrants to become farmers and a program to teach children to eat healthy.
I n America they call him 'locavorism', a neologism to describe the movement that drives us to eat natural grown products locally, according to the principles of sustainability 'environment.
And the fact that Sotheby's has noticed this trend clearly indicates that the phenomenon of organic farming is growing in the States.
The auction opens the 'Drink Eat Local Week', to say the week of eating and drinking establishment, which includes a number of initiatives throughout the state of New York from September 26 to October 6.
(source: USA Today)
