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Lettuce entertain you. (Photo).


EDIBLE MUSIC: At a performance of the First Viennese Vegetable Orchestra in London. Matthias Meinharter (left) beat a pumpkin drum with a leek leek: see onion.
leek

Hardy, vigorous, biennial plant (Allium porrum) of the lily family, native to the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. It has a mild, sweet, onionlike flavour.
 and Marie Steinauer played a cucumber-o-phone made by hollowing out a cucumber, drilling holes in it, and attaching a carrot mouthpiece and red pepper red pepper: see pepper.  at the end. To plat A map of a town or a section of land that has been subdivided into lots showing the location and boundaries of individual parcels with the streets, alleys, easements, and rights of use over the land of another.  works like "Five Improvisations for Mixed Vegetables," the nine-piece Austrian ensemble blows, bangs, shakes, peels, snaps, grates, and rubs its "instruments" in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem"
tandem
. Afterward, the performers serve the audience--what else?--vegetable soup.
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Title Annotation:First Viennese Vegetable Orchestra
Publication:New York Times Upfront
Geographic Code:4EUUE
Date:Apr 18, 2003
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