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Spring is here
Pulled pork and grits at the Queens Comfort (40-09 30th Ave, Astoria, Queens)
Collard greens going into the turkey wing soup, a remedy for a weekend-long stomach virus.
Black on black. And a little green too.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered - Emerson
The following photo is of a recipe of roasted sweet potatoes (grown on the Yale Sustainable farm), apples (grown by Bishops Orchards) and a top invasive weed called mugwort (collected from the Yale Sustainable farm) that I used to season the rice with. Mugwort inhibits the growth of other plants by means of root secretions. It’s leaves are highly fibrous so they must be juiced instead of being directly eaten. Native Americans and Asians both used mugwort as food and medicine and to promote lucid dreams. It’s flavor is reminiscent of a bitter green tea and works well in recipes counterbalanced by sweetness as I have done in the before mentioned recipe. Mugowort is a common crop weed and an invasive species that invades into areas with native flora. Instead of using toxic herbicides to deal with mugwort, why not find practical and profitable uses for it?
Here’s an article about targeting ecologically destructive species as food as part of the solution to the trillion and a half dollars a year worldwide problem of invasive species. My interview was done by Amanda Baltazar for Restaurant Management Magazine: http://www.rmgtmagazine.com/ corporate-responsibility/one-restaurants-deadliest-catch
Both food photos were taken by James Oca.
Court Square at the golden hour.
The biryani spread at Kabab King in Jackson Heights.
