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<\/p>\n\u201eThe earth has music for those who listen\u201c \u2013 George Santayana<\/p>\n
When I was wandering around Vienna's Yppenmarkt during the Vienna Foodie Quest festival recently, I was overwhelmed by the colourful beauty of the produce and flowers on offer. Bright petals in all colours of the rainbow, shiny red and yellow tomatoes, rare and unusual herbs, lavender as far as the eye could see - and my absolute favourite: the Chioggia beet, a\u00a0red and white striped root vegetable.<\/p>\n
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It's amazing what grows out there in nature, and that Vienna Foodie Quest Saturday morning brought this realisation\u00a0back to me in a big way. The food event featured a scavenger hunt around\u00a0culinary locations with a\u00a0charity sideline. Personally, the Vienna Foodie Quest was an all-round beautiful experience. There was great entertainment, interesting information and overall, amazing scents, healthy ingredients and tasting opportunities wherever I turned. \u201eThe earth has music for those who listen\u201c \u2013 George Santayana When I was wandering around Vienna’s Yppenmarkt during the Vienna Foodie Quest festival recently, I was overwhelmed by the colourful beauty of the produce and flowers on offer. Bright petals in all colours of the rainbow, shiny red and yellow tomatoes, rare and unusual herbs, lavender as far as the eye could see – and my absolute favourite: the Chioggia beet, a\u00a0red and white striped root vegetable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[754,769],"tags":[1409,1415,1420,1417,1410,1411,983,1418,984,1412,925,1419,1413,1416,1414],"ingredient":[],"class_list":["post-12500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","category-salads","tag-10-000-gaerten-in-afrika-en","tag-10000-gardens-in-africa","tag-asparagus","tag-beets","tag-chioggia-en","tag-gelbe-tomaten-en","tag-ruben-en","tag-salad","tag-salat-en","tag-sommer-en","tag-spargel-en","tag-summer","tag-vienna-foodie-quest-en","tag-yellow-tomatoes","tag-yppenmarkt-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe rally to find the Vienna's best eateries\u00a0involved amazing people, fiendishly difficult riddles, tasting sessions and a look behind the scenes of the city's most amazing restaurants. In teams of two, off we went, documenting our experiences and impressions on social media. The most inventive, funny images were in the run for some incredible prizes and all of this benefited a Slow Food International project called 10.000 gardens in Africa<\/strong>: all of the participation fees went towards the construction of school and community gardens in African cities in order to enable locals easy access to healthy, fresh food,\u00a0make them aware of the value of their land and show them how to grow and trade their own produce efficiently.<\/p>\n
\nIn the spirit of all this well-being, I tried to bring a little bit of summer and its gorgeous products and brilliant colours onto today's featured plate - and it's a summer salad. Pure poetry for the eyes as well as tastebuds!<\/p>\n![\"VFQ_0671\"](\"https:\/\/www.foodtastic.at\/content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/VFQ_0671-1024x1024.jpg\")
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