His first stop? The supermarket. A large, green calabash gourd caught his eye, and inspiration struck. Why not use it as a cooking pot? As a scout, he had cooked in green papayas, coconuts and bamboo.

Sushi Ai’s signature dish is braised Hokkaido ankimo (monkfish liver) with kanpyo (calabash gourd) and ikura (salmon roe) on top of a nori chip and finished with hanaho (shiso flower).

In Chinese music, gourds fall into one of the eight categories ... [4] The sheng was invented when people stuck bamboo pipes into a calabash and blew air into it to make musical notes.

Like in other communities, the calabash among the Asians is used for storage, serving or feeding. The collection includes long and shallow gourds from pastoralist communities, the Kalenjin gourds ...

Photo by: Silverbackpacker The "kattukong" or "tabúngaw" is a unique and functional piece of traditional Ilocano headgear, ingeniously crafted from the hollowed and dried calabash gourd ...