My weakness is for recipes with startling procedures, like cooking chicken in watermelon or Colman Andrews's idea of boiling pasta in a bottle of wine.

WSJ: The Rules of Recipe Attraction

With events like redneck horseshoes (tossing toilet seat covers), watermelon seed spitting and an armpit serenade, the games celebrate all the stereotypes that have surrounded rural Southerners over the years.

BBC: The Summer Redneck Games begin

The Seed Savers Exchange is a 850-acre farm that saves and shares heirloom seeds like Strawberry Crown Squash, Lemon Drop Tomato, Stone Mountain Watermelon and Champion of England Pea for future generations.

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