[Magdalen] Rhubarb cookies

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 14:23:05 UTC 2015


No monkeys in rhubarb-land!

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:20 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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