Going green!
The temperature’s rising; trees are budding, flowers are blooming-- not even a concrete jungle can keep a weed down. Just walking over a bridge yesterday I saw rape blossoms choking the river.
People need their greens (back me up, Popeye), but plants are growing with or without our help. Once, I saw a program on Japanese TV where they showed computer simulations of what the world would look like if human life disappeared. After 20 years, roads and sidewalks were being torn up by grasses and vines were enveloping houses. After a couple of hundred years, the Eiffel tower came down, the Empire State building was reduced to rubble, bridges collapsed into the oceans, pyramids were flattened. Every structure ever raised by human hands was annihilated by vegetable life-- that's what I call a comeback!
People need their greens (back me up, Popeye), but plants are growing with or without our help. Once, I saw a program on Japanese TV where they showed computer simulations of what the world would look like if human life disappeared. After 20 years, roads and sidewalks were being torn up by grasses and vines were enveloping houses. After a couple of hundred years, the Eiffel tower came down, the Empire State building was reduced to rubble, bridges collapsed into the oceans, pyramids were flattened. Every structure ever raised by human hands was annihilated by vegetable life-- that's what I call a comeback!
It just goes to show you can’t underestimate the power of greens. So, in celebration of the vegetable, I’m going to ring in spring with a popular (and Popeye approved) spinach dish. Horenso no goma-ae uses a creamy preparation of toasted sesame seeds to dress boiled spinach. I swear, just the smell of toasted sesame ground up in a mortar and pestle will motivate even the most stubborn carnivores to eat their veggies.
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