An anecdote of a great man — courtesy the DPRK (kinda)’s Voice of National Salvation:
Benevolent herbarium of edible grasses
President Kim Il Sung visited a unit of the north Korean People?????s Army to convene an emergency meeting with commanding officers on one summer day in Juche 41 (1952) when the war was at its height on the Korean Peninsula. The agenda of the meeting was the problem related to the logistic supply for the soldiers.
Acquainting himself with insufficient diet of servicemen, the President told the commanding officers to make more side dishes for them by picking edible grasses.
The next morning he climbed up a mountain together with an official and picked wild edible greens in defiance of his clothes getting wet with dew.
After he picked a good quantity of edible greens, he descended the mountain, saying to an official that he had told the commanding officers to provide side-dishes with edible greens to soldiers and he felt uneasy because the soldiers may pick inedible greens unable to distinguish edible greens from inedible greens.
That day he made a herbarium by inserting species of wild greens in the leaves of a big book like a photo album. Then he wrote in detail the names of wild greens and the place where they grow and specific features for distinguishing them from poisonous herb.
He sent the herbarium to soldiers of the unit whom he met the day before.
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And the next day, he brought the American dogs to their knees, invented
the sun and the moon and levitated with radiant light pouring from his head.
Before breakfast.
Benevolent edible grasses + Kim Jong-ill burger = soylent green
On my Korean wife’s first visit to my rural hometown, she picked and we ate yummy weeds she plucked from my parents yard and fence line. So that one does not think that this is a Korean thing, see the recipe for Hoary Nettle Lasagna at http://www.virtualitalia.com/r.....eeds.shtml.
From that site:
Italians, along with the Greek and Spanish, are one of the few western cultures that continue to forage for wild food to this day. Any culture which has had to face hunger and famine took to explore the “wild” for edible plants. The Italians, in particular, have a history of foraging that goes back to Roman and, even, Celtic origins.
Edible weeds are high in nutrients and minerals (like iron, and vitamins) and, unlike, cultivated herbs that you would grow in your garden or buy at the store they don’t need pesticides or artificial chemicals to grow - they just find a place they like (nesteled between coastal rocks, protected in a forest, ect.) and grow!
So lay of the Kim Jong Il jokes. He is the “Lodestone of the 21st Century”, after all.