Cuisines in Bloom – New York Times

Published: May 4, 2008

DUKAGJINI BUREKTORJA
(718) 822-8955; 758 Lydig Avenue (Wallace Avenue), Pelham Parkway; $; Article: 5/18/05.
This Albanian place may be the only restaurant in the city devoted entirely to bureks: savory pies that are the Balkans’ answer to pizza. They are convincingly good, stuffed with meat, spinach, or feta [...]

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Garden Rant: Championing natives—worldwide – Annotated

Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens

Don had an epiphany of sorts after doing the series—not a terribly surprising one. This is what he says in a recent interview with the Daily Mail: “Gardening with indigenous plants and working with nature by tweaking it is so much more interesting [...]

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Antiques Fair for the Garden Set at the New York Botanical Garden – New York Times – Annotated

Antique Garden and Furniture Show and Sale in the New York Botanical Garden, Friday through Sunday.
The fair, with 37 dealer booths, specializes in antique garden furniture, ornaments, sculptures, architectural elements, garden books and prints, and is timed to [...]

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Table of Contents: April 28, 2008: Table of Contents: The New Yorker – Annotated

Magazine only, not online

Restoration Drama
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At Botanical Garden: What Darwin Saw Out Back – New York Times – Annotated

By CORNELIA DEAN
Published: April 25, 2008

Damon Winter/The New York Times
Orchids on display at the New York Botanical Garden recall the varieties Darwin studied and the role they played in his future naturalist theories.

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