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Jun 29, 2023 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
A while back I bought a book at a thrift store called MAGIC IN HERBS. Published in 1953 it’s mostly about, well, herbs, but contains a chapter entitled “And, Oh, the Vegetables!” Each section introduces a vegetable & begins with the best sentence ever written about that vegetable
String beans: “String beans are the most misunderstood and tormented of vegetables.” (This is gonna be a delightful thread)
