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[SEL-ah-don'] 
1. a pale grayish green color: "Seeing her at the party in a gossamer celadon dress made Jason's heart ache."
2. a type of pottery with a grayish green glaze, originally produced in China
adjective form: celadon
Origin:
Approximately 1768; from French, 'Celadon,' name of a character in the romance of 'L'Astree,' by Honore d'Urfe (1610), a sentimental lover who wore bright green clothes; from Greek, 'Keladon,' a character in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses.' In action:
"At first glance, the economics of Hawaiian vanilla look appealing. A pound can cost $200 wholesale, and 1 acre's worth is equal to 20 acres of coffee. But making a pound of vanilla takes 100 beans, which must be handpicked. The vanilla plant, a twisting Little Shop of Horrors-style vine with dangling finger-like seedpods, flowers only one day a year and then for only a few hours.
So Reddekopp can't afford to rely on random pollination by bees. Instead, each of the ephemeral, celadon-hued blossoms is hand-pollinated, a delicate task done either with the tip of a fingernail or a slender bamboo pick. Reddekopp; his wife, Tracy; and their three oldest children do much of the pollinating themselves, with other workers helping out during the busiest times.
'Vanilla is the most labor-intensive crop in the world,' Reddekopp says. 'You have to have some emotion to make it work and the passion to do it right. When we bring people to work in this operation, we're bringing in their whole lives. Their joys, their sorrows, and their hopes.'"
Matthew Jaffe. "Big Island bounty: on the island of Hawaii, a unique collection of farmers are following their dreams--and growing some of the best food in the world," Sunset (March 2006).
"You can see that I care too much about this. But I think it stems from the fact that I lie in bed each morning, as I sip coffee, and watch Martha puttering around her house on her show. I'm beginning to relate to her, even though we are opposites in most every way. I have shame drawers that haven't been neat for decades, and I'm sure that would never happen in her house. I don't love the color celadon and she can't live without it. And I will never, ever be able to make an apron. The one thing we have in common is love of food, and I do believe that people who love to eat usually love sex, too. She's always sticking her fingers into sauces and frostings. She loves eating big bites of things on-screen and exclaiming how delicious it all is. She swoons nicely."
Karen Croft. "Martha Stewart loving," [Does the perfect one get off using her glue gun or does she have a sex life? I think we all want to know.] Salon.com (June 27, 2002).
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