Radish (An Excerpt from Plenty)
Take a single crop: the radish. We had eaten the baby greens, then the radish root itself, boiled the later greens for stock, tossed the flowers in salads, enjoyed the young seedpods as a hot, crunchy snack in early fall. Our inability to feed the world is not an agricultural failure; it is a failure both of imagination and of kindness.
An excerpt from Plenty (2 and a half pickles out of 5, if you want my review) that touches on how much use we can get from a single food. It takes creativity and resourcefulness, two qualities that don’t get enough attention when it comes to preparing a (great) meal.