hi im loon or chirpy or whatever! im 29 and prefer she/her. i use social media to vent and post about daomu biji, mostly. i also play genshin impact and honkai star rail. i watch murder, she wrote daily.
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
Just read the article, and in short, the scientist thinks a particular species found some distance from the original growing place could be the miracle plant. Sounded like it’s not 100% sure yet, but plausible!! So cool??
So, like @faeforge said, this plant was a big culinary deal, right? Apparently, this historian and cook lady, Sally Grainger, from this culinary channel, got together with the scientist who discovered the plant, AND THEY COOKED WITH IT. Recipes with silphium were super well-documented, it seems, so they got together and just cooked the hell out of it, had a little feast with the team, and it was, by all accounts, absolutely delicious.
Of course, now the great worry is that there are very, very few specimens of it, only half of them being raised in captivity, so it is a delicate situation.
According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.
sheds a single tear
every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years
Lil Early, but fuck it! I’m not missing it this year.
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