The same principle (“reject the middle, explicitly look at the tail of the distribution”) as The Verjus Manifesto:
(talking about how to make good-for-you metaphorical vegetables palatable)
Vegetables can be cooked poorly. But they can also be roasted to perfection with a drizzle of olive oil and hint of sea salt. This is certainly one approach to the preparation of otherwise unpalatable but virtuous fact-nutrition. However, here’s an alternative: Take the same original plate of metaphorical vegetablesChuck all the popular and/or fashionable ones away, like parsnips and kale.Replace them with more bitter chard, brussels sprouts and celeriac, and other stuff that people chuck out of their vegetable boxesAdd some kohl-rabi and other weird rubbish. Sprinkle it with habanero peppersDon’t roast it at all. Lightly dress it with unsweetened verjus and Fernet-Branca. I think we can agree two things about this hypothetical vegetable offering: Almost nobody would look twice at it on a menu But of the half dozen people who did order it, you would want all of them to be your mates.
Vegetables can be cooked poorly. But they can also be roasted to perfection with a drizzle of olive oil and hint of sea salt.
This is certainly one approach to the preparation of otherwise unpalatable but virtuous fact-nutrition. However, here’s an alternative:
Take the same original plate of metaphorical vegetables
Chuck all the popular and/or fashionable ones away, like parsnips and kale.
Replace them with more bitter chard, brussels sprouts and celeriac, and other stuff that people chuck out of their vegetable boxes
Add some kohl-rabi and other weird rubbish. Sprinkle it with habanero peppers
Don’t roast it at all. Lightly dress it with unsweetened verjus and Fernet-Branca.
I think we can agree two things about this hypothetical vegetable offering:
Almost nobody would look twice at it on a menu
But of the half dozen people who did order it, you would want all of them to be your mates.
:-)
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The same principle (“reject the middle, explicitly look at the tail of the distribution”) as The Verjus Manifesto:
(talking about how to make good-for-you metaphorical vegetables palatable)
:-)