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| | | Subject: On first looking into Jane Grigson's 'Good Things'
Posted Oct 10, 2009 by anhaga
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| | I've only gotten through the two page introduction thus far, but Grigson is speaking to me very clearly across the years:
'When one thinks of the civilization implied in the development of peaches from the wild fruit, or of apricots, grapes, pears, plums, when one thinks of those millions of gardeners from ancient China right across Asia and the Middle East to Rome then across the Alps north to France, Holland and England of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, how can we so crassly, so brutishly, reduce the exquisite results of their labour to cans full of syrup and cardboard-wrapped blocks of ice?'
and as I continue to deal with the wonderful and tasty produce of my small plot while the snow swirls outside, I reply to her:
'Indeed! Yes!'
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