Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@MadsMcKeever Fun fact. "Knowing your onions" speaks of wisdom in at least two vernaculars, Russian and English.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 26 Apr 2022

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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