{"id":7345,"date":"2010-10-21T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=7345"},"modified":"2017-08-17T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:20:09","slug":"mario-answers-your-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/10\/exhibit-news\/mario-answers-your-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Answers Your Questions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/images\/wordpress\/rd_head.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"absMiddle\"><\/td>\n<td><em><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Rustin Dwyer is Visual Media Production Specialist at The New York Botanical Garden.<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>What makes a good olive oil? What&#8217;s the deal with whole wheat pasta? How much should I pay?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Master of Molto Gusto&#8221; paid us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/10\/exhibit-news\/the-edible-garden\/batali-loves-the-garden\/\">a visit last weekend<\/a> and took time to answer all these questions and more. Here are some amazing images from last weekend&#8217;s event, so check it out if you missed it . . .<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":1,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.nybg.org\\\/blogs\\\/plant-talk\\\/2010\\\/10\\\/exhibit-news\\\/mario-answers-your-questions\\\/\"}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7345 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5102283012_1d6ce4f869.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5102283012_1d6ce4f869-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-attachment-id=\"7350\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/10\/exhibit-news\/mario-answers-your-questions\/attachment\/edible-garden\/\" 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Then check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/eg\/\" target=\"_self\">all the recipes<\/a> (including Mario&#8217;s amazing way of cooking lacinato kale) from all the chefs who cooked here at the Garden this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Master of Molto Gusto&#8221; paid us a visit last weekend and took time to answer all these questions and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,241],"tags":[242,4638,4648],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-1Ut","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55982,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions\/55982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}