Comments on: Grass — it’s good for you!

By: Charles Tustison

Charles Tustison — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:23:11 +0000

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.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:03:48 +0000

Benevolent edible grasses + Kim Jong-ill burger = soylent green

By: Zdunk

Zdunk — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:14:33 +0000

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.

By: Simon World

Simon World — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:31:49 +0000

Asia by blog
Another edition of the various links in Asian blogging: Hong Kong, Taiwan and China Dan McCarthy posted an article on Living in China stating China would not attack Taiwan, ever. Joseph had an extensive (and to my mind accurate) response, including the…

By: Simon World

Simon World — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:28:20 +0000