Word: arugula
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...weekends ago, one or more vandals entered the garden and stomped around the garden beds. The only harm done by the intruders consisted of minor damage to some arugula seedlings, Cohen said...
...anyone to come get his or her hands dirty. This opportunity for involvement is central to the garden’s success, since it can reach its laudable goal only if it succeeds in growing Harvard’s population of environmentally conscious individuals along with the arugula and chard...
Does all this sound familiar? The hyping of a previously unknown green that doesn't taste particularly strongly of anything? The testimonials to its cultural power? If so, you're probably thinking of arugula, whose cultural life cycle has already come and gone. Arugula, a salad green that looks kind of like lettuce, became so gentrified over the course of the past 20 years or so that Kamp used it in the title of his 2006 primer on how we became a gourmet nation: The United States of Arugula...
...ramps the new arugula? They're more than that. They're more valuable than arugula, because of their shorter growing season and because it takes much more skill to use them well. And they really are good, at least when cooked by the master chefs who use them so ostentatiously...
...worry is that ramps will soon become as passé as arugula, and that seasonal-minded cooks will take up another spring product, like the fiddlehead fern, as the green of the moment. There is nothing good about the fiddlehead fern. It's not even the wild cousin of anything good. And if fiddlehead ferns start getting touted on menus, then this green-market business will have definitely gone...