I knew nothing about veggie baskets, but there was instruction: a number (less than six veggies, too "skimpy"; more than twelve, too much), a technique (blanch your beans, then ice them, so the green pops), and a commitment to visual novelty (yellow carrots, purple peppers, rainbow greens).
In fact, these compounds can produce all the colours of the rainbow except green.
Amen to Alex Witchel for saluting all the colors of the foodstuff rainbow, including green, white and orange.
From the mine, they headed to the Erta Ale volcano, which looked like something out of The Wizard of Oz: patches of rainbow red, green and blue, totally magical, with bubbling pools of acid in-between.
For his sophomore feature, he's made a brave move up the rainbow with Green Room, a savage horror film that also takes a familiar subgenre but this time, he elevates it quite superbly.
It is tiny — just a few blocks of adobe houses, rustic bars and shops selling everything from silver jewelry and alpaca sweaters to dolls and medicinal herbs — but framed by the greatness of the Cerro de los Siete Colores, or the Hill of the Seven Colors, which is a towering rainbow of green, yellow, purple and ocher rock formations.
With her hair since re-dyed a rainbow of yellow, green and blue, Mattek-Sands has a tough early draw here, facing No. 7 Angelique Kerber at the opening hurdle.
A rainbow of moles red, green, black, even white, delicately spiced with chiles and chocolate and cinnamon and pine nuts are served over tender dark chicken meat, and have gained Mendez a legion of fans.
Its chromatic aberration poses the question: would a street like New York's Third Avenue look better with a tropical cast, with apartment buildings in a rainbow coalition of green, yellow, red, pink, orange and other colors relieving the bleak mediocrity of 1950's architecture?
