Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

Food as medicine? Few foods have as storied a planetary history as onions. Our earliest record? Perhaps the Charaka Samhita, a 6th Century BCE Ayurvedic text, itself based on the Agnivesha Samhitā, an 8th Century BCE medical compendium. Onion knowhow, then.youtu.be/SkF3c4dNQws

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Quoted byI love raising locally-adapted storage onions, a cornerstone bridge crop—fresh food that behaves like a staple in storage. Not idea but flesh, not a concept but a covenant with the seasons. The ordinary becomes luminous in time. This is what it means to come home.Quoted by@MadsMcKeever Fun fact. "Knowing your onions" speaks of wisdom in at least two vernaculars, Russian and English.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: How long can an onion store? That depends. We may as well ask, 'from where does planetary wisdom issue?' Today I'm cooking with onions I raised and harvested in 2023. The variety? 'Maria Nagy', an extraordinary long-keeper shared to the PNW by Romanian seed steward, Maria Nagy.Quoted byHow long can an onion store? That depends. We may as well ask, 'from where does planetary wisdom issue?' Today I'm cooking with onions I raised and harvested in 2023. The variety? 'Maria Nagy', an extraordinary long-keeper shared to the PNW by Romanian seed steward, Maria Nagy.