Welcome Back
Some of you have emailed me to make sure I’m still here..I’m here! I’m here! Welcome to my new updated Bunny Tales. I’ve been thinking about giving my blog a new look for some time now, and I finally decided that no matter what, I had to make time to do it. I hope you like it.
Instead of leading you into a single post on the home page, I’ve given you a selection. The current post will always be in the upper left corner. Just click on it and you’ll be there. If you’re looking for something in particular you can use the “Search” tab over in the right side bar. I’m amazed at how great it works. For example, try searching for the picture I took of an artichoke. Just type in artichoke, click on go, and three posts that mention the word “artichoke” will come up. Go ahead, try it and I’ll wait for you. Just be sure and come right back!
Great, I’m glad you’re back! I hope you read the posts while you were there, because I’ve decided to do a “welcome back to my blog give-away”! Just look at what I’m giving away…
…three bags of Cosmo Embroidery Floss! There’s enough floss in each bag, you may never have to buy floss again! To win one of these floss bags, leave me a comment with the word “artichoke” in it. You can copy from any of my previous posts, or you can make up your own sentence using the word artichoke. I guarantee inside each of these bags is an artichoke color floss that you can use to embroider little artichokes (see how easy it is?). I’ll pick three random winners on Monday, June 20th.
And here’s some news that might make you feel better if you don’t win one of these treat bags. Cosmo floss will be 25% off during our upcoming sale. I’ve moved our July 4th sale to June! For three days everything on our website will be 25% off. Everything! So save the dates of June 24, 25 and 26! It’s our annual July 4th sale early!
I’ve missed all of you and it feels good to be back in blog-land. I hope you’re enjoying some California artichokes this weekend!
Hugs,
Anne
326 Comments
B J White
Castroville is the artichoke capital of the world–just down the road from Bunny Hill Designs?
Delcia R.
Do I have an artichoke joke? Nope! I may just croak or go take a soak. Not funny I know, but my clever hubby didn’t have anything for me, so you got my “best” try–or worst if I do say so myself.
Now, here is a bit of information from Bon Appetite magazine about the illustrious artichoke–ready or not:
“Aristotle called the artichoke a “cactus,” but it wasn’t a case of ancient Greek botany gone wrong. Back then, the word for an artichoke–or at least its closest relative, a kind of wild artichoke that’s now called a “cardoon”–was kaktos. But the story of how that became the “artichoke” is about as thorny as they come.
The ancestor of our word “artichoke” comes from the opposite side of the Mediterranean from Greece: Arab-occupied Spain. There, the western Arabic word for an artichoke-y plant, al-karsufa (al in Arabic just means “the”), turned into the Spanish alcarchofa. This worked its way to Northern Italy, where it got turned into articiocco, most likely because ciocco was the local word for “stump,” and arti– was a version of our prefix “arch,” meaning “high” (and the artichoke plant does have a big stumpy mass up high).
Articiocco then worked its way into English, and like the Italians before them, English speakers tended to make up associations for the word. Some called it a “hartichoke,” since it looked like a heart; others assumed that the “choke” part had something to do with the hard-to-breathe meaning of “choke,” either because you’d choke if you ate the middle of the plant, or because it grew so fast that it would choke out all the other growth around it. All of this was wrong, of course, since it really came from Arabic via Italian. But facts rarely get in the way of a common-sense folk etymology.”
Anne Carpenter
I love artichoke hearts! Yum!