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Published: 2008-09-19 19:35:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 432; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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My mom still talks about how, when she was a child, everyone in the rural areas who relied on growing their own crops would get extremely hungry for green vegetables in late winter after they had run out of their canned vegetables from the last growing season. The country folk considered the pokeberries poisonous, but as soon as the green leaves began to develop (one of the earliest to do so), they would pick the leaves and cook them until very soft, and eat them.They called this delectable concoction "Poke Salad."
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Last days of September...
Dear Alisia, I think, all exams are in the past and - 'My congratulations to newborn PhD in Musicology'.
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Oh, I have a ways to go yet. I am still working on my dissertation.
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These grow at my house. I've been wondering what kind they were, good thing I didn't try to eat one, if they are poisonous!
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Well, that's the old lore, anyway. Better to play it safe than sorry, as they say.
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I did a sot of the poke berry blooms last spring, love this shot
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Thanks! I realized yesterday that I had waited a bit past their prime to shoot them, but this one turned out decently, I thought.
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Well i've heard of poke berries before..but have never actually seen them. Interesting looking plants.. and nice shot!
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Very interesting commentary, and a great shot!
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I've had that before, one of my Grandmothers cooked it regularly. have you ever had poke salad?
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You know, I've never had it? We still eat "Creasies" (I guess a form of land cress that the locals in Virginia harvest from their corn fields), but I've never had the opportunity to eat poke salad.
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Its good, or at least it was how my Grandmother fixed it.
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