Hey there! It’s Thursday. Super-duper short one today. Thanks for reading.
- Sometimes I wonder how I’m not dead. After writing about foraging for fungus in my D&C column two weeks ago, concerned friends and family have yelled “Don’t eat that!” every time I so much look sideways at a mushroom. Then this week I wrote about the trendy new goji berry and how, after eating one recently, my throat started to close. I sort of brushed it off, but then got a note of warning from Brian Eshenaur that maybe I have an allergy and should avoid this particular fruit, accompanied by this article. I don’t know, something about anaphylactic shock … Pretty, aren’t they?
- There’s a lot of hubbub going on online about whether the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is ending its scientific research or simply suspending it.If you’re interested, read these pieces in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the New York Times and check out the petition on change.org.
- A cute and funny piece about kale, a.k.a. “curly headless cabbage” from the New York Times: Trendy Green Mystifies France.
- Also from the Times, For when you are in NYC: In Defiant Flower, a Host of Plucky Plots, A Tour of New York’s Lesser-Known Parks and Gardens.
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