I recently heard from two friends who had very different reactions to the jars of pickled okra I had given them. One exclaimed how wonderfully spicy the pickles were. The other wondered why hers were so mild. I puzzled over this for a while, then realized that one of these friends had received a jar […]
Every once in a while you learn something about the plant kingdom that makes you stop and think, I need to grow that. So it was with sweet potato leaves, or when I learned that sweet potato leaves are edible. At the time, I did nothing about it. But on a recent visit to One […]
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If the only kind of okra you know is what you see in the supermarket, it may be you’ve never been inspired to eat it. What passes for okra in the store is typically awful looking. Even in our local Whole Foods the okra looks to be weeks old–all shriveled and covered with brown blotches. […]
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