Monday, May 6, 2024

You Are What You Eat

Here in Maine, it's fiddlehead season. Fiddleheads are baby ferns. If left undisturbed they would become adult ferns, like the ones you see growing in the forest or hanging in planters in office building lobbies. 

People here get all excited about them. They cook them and then eat them. I am not one of those people. I tried them once and was immediately sorry.

They are also popular in other parts of the world, like Japan, northern France, Indonesia and Russia.

Be on the lookout.



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