[Magdalen] Rhubarb cookies

[ME Michaud]

I used to wonder that about oysters. Who was the first person to
eat an oyster? Perhaps our far-off ancestors were so close to
starvation some of the time that they tried anything and everything,

A friend who grew up in the tropics tells me people watched monkeys
and avoided eating what monkeys refused to eat. That would make
sense, too.
-M


On Sunday, March 15, 2015, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> One wonders who first figured out that it was the stalks of the rhubarb,
> and not the leaves, that were good to eat. Also other things that must be
> processed, like manioc, to be eaten without poisoning one....yet primitive
> people do eat them.
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