Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The Value of Eating from Your Own Garden

A quote from Booker T. Washington, in Working with the Hands (1904):
" No peas, no turnips,  radishes nor salads taste as good as those which one has raised and gathered with his own hands in his own garden. In comparison with these, all the high-sounding dishes found  in the most expensive restaurants seem flavorless. One feels, when eating his own fresh vegetables, that he is getting to the heart of nature; not a second-hand stale imitation, but the genuine thing."

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