We found cat art and other a'peel'ing posts
This week, our favorite posts on social media are all about making art, featuring families and creating cool recipes — always recipes.
“Steal” some ideas for your own company’s social accounts. Or just be informed and entertained.
You’re welcome.
We’ve seen some amazing produce displays in supermarkets. We’ve been wowed by watermelon sculptures on the trade show floor.
But we’ve never seen an orange cat made from … well, an orange. Or a beautiful cucumber and radish flower bouquet. Or a kiwi koala.
Picking just one post from New York Fruits and Veggies Art’s account on Twitter was tough.
There are so many fun, quirky, amazing and gorgeous pieces by this artist.
And you can buy the artwork, photographed on pillows and T-shirts.
Find them at @NewVeggies.
While fresh fruits and vegetables are at the core of what we all do, we also know it doesn’t work without forming good relationships in our business.
Albert Perez, CEO of Coral Gables, Fla.-based Continental Fresh LLC, reminds us of that fact with this warm-fuzzy photo and message: “Breaking bread with a grower and meeting their family are some of my favorite things. We are so much more than the products we grow and sell.”
Continental Fresh is a grower, shipper, importer and marketer of fresh fruits and vegetables from Central and South America.
Some of its biggest imports are mangoes, cucumbers and butternut squash.
Perez is a longtime activist in reducing poverty and improving global water and sanitation issues, and his vegetables are marketed with Food for Humanity and Water For All labels and are — get ready for the “alphabet soup,” but it’s important — Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Primus Labs certified and Hazard Analysis and Risk-based Preventive Controls (HARPC) compliant with Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) case-level tagging.
Find him on LinkedIn by searching for Albert Perez or Continental Fresh LLC.
We’ve all heard of avocado toast, as well as fruit on toast. But what if the fruit was the toast itself?
Yes, it can be done, and it can be done beautifully, as seen on this Facebook post by USA Pears.
A just-firm-enough pear sliced thinly length-wise provides the perfect palette for your toast-topping creations. The obvious choice, peanut butter and banana, could be a starting-off point. But then, venture off with red-pepper hummus and feta and cucumbers, or vanilla yogurt with dried apricot and fresh mint.
Summer is prime time for USA Pears, the brand name for Pear Bureau Northwest, where so many are grown.
This post links to the website, usapears.org, with four recipes so you too can recreate the dreamy photo.
Find them on Facebook at @USApears.
The image of a college graduate walking hand-in-hand with her parents in a farm field is quite powerful, evoking the age-old American dream of immigrants coming to the U.S. in the hopes their children can find a better life.
In Jennifer Rocha’s case, her father was a foreman in the fruit and vegetable fields of Coachella Valley, Calif. Rocha shares about planting strawberries in the field with her parents, after school, after her cross country running team practice, until 2 a.m., then waking up at 5 a.m. to catch the city bus to school.
Now, she’s a recent graduate from University of California, San Diego, and chose to shoot her college graduation photos in the fields where she worked with her parents in high school.
Congrats, Jennifer, and congrats, Jennifer’s parents.
Lean In, an organization that empowers women in their career efforts, does a great job spotlighting this produce family and their achievements. Co-founded by Sheryl Sandberg, author of the best-selling book "Lean In," the group pushes for more equality and inclusion in the workplace for women.
Find them at @leaninorg.
TikTok
If any of you have ever tried a low-carb diet and found it joy-sucking, we feel you.
Vegetable noodles may be good, but they are NOT as satisfying as regular noodles made with good ol’ flour.
What we love about this post by Yumna Jawad, the blogger behind Feel Good Foodie, is that she isn’t trying to convince us that zucchini noodles are a 1:1 pasta substitute.
“These are so cute and so fun for a salad,” she says in the reel.
Yes, it’s a salad! But a salad that’s way fun and kinda flat-noodly, dare we say, like fettuccine.
All you need is a wide vegetable peeler, some zucchini, Parmesan cheese, walnuts, salt, pepper and a shallot vinaigrette. (Or really any vinaigrette could work.)
Go forth and peel.
Find her on TikTok at @feelgoodfoodie.
