Over the top
Our spring brimmeth over with sun. We got another sodbusting session in Friday evening, and our young friend brought us a swell book entitled 75 Exciting Vegetables for Your Garden, by Jack Staub. It's got wonderful illustrations, recipes, and seems well-written, with historical glimpses into the featured veggies, such as carrots being considered aphrodisiacs back in ye olde Roman times. Course those horndogs Romans seemed to be using just about anything for such purposes, but they were a hyperactive bunch. We went out for a bite after we ran out of daylight, so I haven't gotten a good read on it yet.
Manana, in search of seeds.
Manana, in search of seeds.
posted by isabelita at 10:26 AM
4 Comments:
So, uh, are all 75 of the vegetables exciting in that, uh, way?
If one has enough imagination, I suppose. But no, that's not the uh, main thrust of the book...
Carrots as an aphrodisiac? Is that Italian for sex-toy?
Sounds like a great book. I'll see if I can find it in our local bookstore. I love well-illustrated gardening books.
Hey, Happy Mother's Day!
In the page about carrots, the author says that Caligula served a banquet of all carrot dishes in order to whup up an orgy amongst a bunch of rich fellow Romans...
Thank you for the good wishes, Robin!
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