Re: 2019: You had me at garlic

**M* U* <e*@gmail.com>**

When I owned Underwood Gardens, we grew and harvested seeds from Spilanthes
for our catalog.  Licking fingers or touching tongue or lips after handling
the seed heads resulted in numbness on the part touched.  Spilanthes is
called toothache plant because it was used to numb the mouth for a
toothache.  I had customers tell me how often it was still used to get
someone through a weekend when a dentist was not available...or for teething
babies.

I laughed at a big seed catalog's recommendation of tossing Spilanthes
leaves in salads.   What a perfect way to hide the fact that you're not a
good cook!

If you choose to sample these "berries", please share the results.

Mayo

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:12 AM, <frielster@aol.com> wrote:

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>  Steve,
> it all sounds wonderful except the anchovies. Nasty little things.
> Speaking of food: Has anyone here grown and/or tasted Szechuan buttons,
> a.k.a. electric berries? It's the fruit or flower bud of Acmella oleracea,
> a.k.a. Spilanthes acmella, a.k.a. toothache plant or paracress.
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100200464.html
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> From: Maurer, Steven  <smaurer@NEMOURS.ORG>
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> Subject: Re: [GWL] 2019
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> Kirk,
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> Thanks for a peek at your new website. I'm still assimilating it.
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> Per the ten year window...
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> In ten years my cell phone will be in another room, my computer will be
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> off, I will have just had a whole wheat roll with anchovies, garlic,
> onions,
> provolone cheese and dripping with olive oil. I will be in my garden
> talking to
> my Bonsai trees and communing with pet frogs.
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