Food on the Brain » early spring http://www.foodonthebrain.net Is it wrong when all your conversations end up about food? Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:26:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 in the garden: rhubarb http://www.foodonthebrain.net/2008/03/08/in-the-garden-rhubarb/ http://www.foodonthebrain.net/2008/03/08/in-the-garden-rhubarb/#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:09:22 +0000 Jessamyn http://foodonthebrain.wordpress.com/?p=217 the first rhubarb stalk

The rhubarb in the back yard is just beginning to sprout. It’s not any sort of fancy variety – in fact, it came with the house. But it’s vigorous and tasty, and we’re really looking forward to our first rhubarb pie.

The early stalks have a certain alien quality to them, like a gunnera or a tree fern. Who first thought that it might be edible?

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