I will never forget the farmer in Venice who laughed uproariously when I asked her to give me the purslane she was weeding from her fields. "This is not for humans," she said contemptuously, handing over great heaps of the thick slightly lemon-flavored weed. Yes, it's a weed, but as Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, weeds are just plants whose virtues we have yet to discover.
Things I Love: Purslane
Things I Love: Purslane
Things I Love: Purslane
I will never forget the farmer in Venice who laughed uproariously when I asked her to give me the purslane she was weeding from her fields. "This is not for humans," she said contemptuously, handing over great heaps of the thick slightly lemon-flavored weed. Yes, it's a weed, but as Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, weeds are just plants whose virtues we have yet to discover.