"The radish is worth its weight in lead, the beet its weight in silver, the horseradish its weight in gold." As Apollo reported from the Delphic oracle, found in Waverly Root's book Food, 1903
Last Wednesday, on a brief 24 hour visit to my parents house
in Maine, I realized that August is truly the hour of harvest - at least in
Maine, where wild blueberries coat the fields in sweetness, and vegetables beg
to be brought inside and eaten.
