The Accidental Hedonist has an article today — What’s Missing from this Picture? — about the seedy underbelly that is an avocadoless guacamole dip, made by Mission, and containing the rather peculiar additional note on its label ‘with garden vegetables.’ By which they mean, ’somebody thought about garden vegetables for a nanosecond while typesetting this [...]
There is a famous ‘prayer’ in the novel Dune by Frank Herbert, called the Bene Gesserit ‘Litany Against Fear’. When I first read the book as a teenager, this passage stuck with me — as I think it does with a lot of people. Here’s how one version of it goes: ‘I must not fear. Fear [...]
My journey through the world of apples continues today with two new (to me) cultivars: The Granny Smith was super tasty, very tart, with a unique liquid juiciness to it separate from the solid fleshy texture. The skin seems a bit tougher or thicker than the Red and Golden Delicious ones I’ve tried so far, but [...]
With all this melodrama about what should be a simple thing — eating food — this might be a good time to list some of the fruits and veggies I’ve liked most of my life, not counting the ones I’ve recently discovered this past couple of years. The listed items do not count non-original forms, [...]
Today’s Grown Diaries selection is a bit of a ringer. The Golden Delicious apple is one ‘cultivar’ (cultivated variety) of this ubiquitous fruit, one which is grown in the U.S. and Europe. According to this wikipedia article, it was discovered in West Virginia in 1914 and was originally called Mullin’s Yellow Seedling. Interestingly, it is not [...]
