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...serious gardeners as well as apartment dwellers with teeny window boxes, planting bulbs is one of autumn's sweetest pleasures. And just like fall fashions, bulbs are subject to crazes (as in the Dutch tulip bubble, circa 1630). Horticultural gurus say that this season, black, orange and fragrant bulbs are the ones to plant. While a truly black tulip has not yet been created, Black Hero (a deep crimson, below) and Black Parrot (a dark maroon) come close. If you want aroma and color, try Orange Princess or candy-striped Carnaval de Nice. Most bulbs can be bought from online...
...production of coffee?following the beans as they are picked, roasted and ground into the powder fancied by Indonesians. Another favorite is local home brew jamu, a fluorescent-hued energy drink that is a national obsession. Losari's version uses a tasty blend of tree sap, honey and fragrant herbs...
COFFEE BREAK The Starbucks bug has bitten Shanghai, but head instead to the Old China Hand Reading Room, a pleasant library cum caféopened by a local photographer. Try the java with slices of thick buttered toast or go local and sip fragrant rose-bud tea. 27 Shaoxing Road, near Ruijin Er Road...
...that chefs like, including purple brandywines, green striped zebras and fuzzy blues, are popping up at farmers' markets and gourmet food shops, and the seeds are big sell- ers. But whatever types they buy, chefs say they look for the same qualities in tomatoes. They should be vine ripened, fragrant and deeply colored: the reds rosy, the purples uniformly purply. Shape doesn't matter--old-style bumpy tomatoes are often tastiest--but they should be heavy for their size and give ever so slightly when gently squeezed. Store all tomatoes at room temperature; refrigeration makes the flesh mealy and kills...
...true Japanese experience, stay at a ryokan, a Japanese-style B and B. The Miyazaki Ryokan in Obama has luxurious, outdoor hot tubs overlooking fragrant, pink azaleas. Sleeping quarters are spartan but comfortable, usually little more than a feathery futon laid out on a tatami floor. The $195 a night includes a traditional dinner of sashimi, clear soups and grilled fish. Wherever you stay, pay attention to Japanese etiquette. Shoes should be removed and exchanged for slippers whenever entering a traditional hotel or restaurant. Visits to the restroom require yet another change of footwear; the inevitable lapse will...