Word: fiddlehead
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...COLD IN THE MIDWEST, WINTER IS COMING, AND DEspite our best efforts, we are still getting older. The fabulous anti-aging vitamin cathline-b, discovered in burdock and the fiddlehead fern, was discovered too late for us; bales of burdock wouldn't make us a minute younger. In the pasture, where our burdock grows, Holsteins recline, chewing their cud. Cud is food previously eaten, then regurgitated into the mouth for further chewing. This is how a cow's digestive system works, how we get milk. A Holstein lies in the pasture, eating vomit, thinking about her career...
...enhancing the flavor of seafood without obliterating it. She explains as well the techniques of frying, poaching, grilling and cutting raw fish for the right textural contrasts and warns about pollutants and parasites. Fried soft-shell crabs in a spicy sauce, cold poached tilefish with mustard-miso sauce and fiddlehead ferns, and a careful, simple tempura recipe are among the enticements...
...Tryon, however have found a more domestic purpose for the scientifically vital fern. In the spring they scan the New England woodlands for fiddlehead ferns, which the couple then eat fresh in soups and salads or freeze to enjoy year round...
...Alice Tryon's favorite recipes, she says, is "fiddlehead ferns in cheese sauce," a recipe which she recently donated to a cookbook. "Cooking with a Harvard Accent"- a collection of recipes donated by members of the Harvard community...
...hydrangeas; apartment dwellers were determined to bring touches of nature into their steel-and-concrete towers. Bird lovers crowded the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge as they sought to spot the first glossy ibis, dowitchers and lesser yellowlegs of the season. Members of the Appalachian Mountain Club went hunting for fiddlehead ferns...