Welcome to Vegetable Thoughts
Welcome to Vegetable Thoughts. With vegetables so much in the news (vegetables for health, vegetables in the context of sustainable agriculture, slow food, local consumption), I think it's time to do a little thinking about them in a literary or artistic context.
Do vegetables arouse anxious thoughts in you? Do you find it difficult to shift your cooking and eating habits to a greater consumption of vegetables? Are you hostile to eggplant? Perhaps, by examining our ideas and notions about vegetables, we can expand our enjoyment of them both as sources of health and objects of study and admiration.
Are there vegetables in Jane Austen's novels? The novels of Dickens? What did Mrs. Beeton have to say about vegetables? Elizabeth David? What are your favorite vegetable paintings? Are we limited to Dutch still lifes of squash? Can we find zucchini in Picasso? Should fruit be excluded?
Never mind recipes. Take a dip into the world of food for thought.
Do vegetables arouse anxious thoughts in you? Do you find it difficult to shift your cooking and eating habits to a greater consumption of vegetables? Are you hostile to eggplant? Perhaps, by examining our ideas and notions about vegetables, we can expand our enjoyment of them both as sources of health and objects of study and admiration.
Are there vegetables in Jane Austen's novels? The novels of Dickens? What did Mrs. Beeton have to say about vegetables? Elizabeth David? What are your favorite vegetable paintings? Are we limited to Dutch still lifes of squash? Can we find zucchini in Picasso? Should fruit be excluded?
Never mind recipes. Take a dip into the world of food for thought.
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