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Garden Master
Stir-frying was a way for me to significantly and happily increase my vegetable consumption. It led to what I felt was a more healthy diet and better use of my garden.
Leafy greens were, of course, an important part of this. After finally learning the identity of one that was a pleasing favorite at Chinese restaurants for my entire young life, I remember my first venture home with some of those greens from a supermarket. Yuck! The produce manager must have been even more in the dark about the Asian vegetables than I was. Luckily, there was an Asian market not far away and I came to know Asian American gardeners.
Still, there are some problems with integrating European American traditional with Asian gardening. Some of that has to do with names for the plants. While my "Better Vegetable Gardening the Chinese Way," helped me better learn gardening in beds, it's no help with names. Ya know, one problem is adopting one society's name into a different language. I just learned that a veggie that I've grown for decades, and was willing to accept as either bok or pak choy, is also known as "buk" or "bai" choy by some English speakers. Toss choy, choi, or cai into the mix. Sheesh!
Some of the problem is the limitations of the English language. For example, the uncommon use of unaspirated p, t, k, b, d, ɡ ... Maybe some of you remember being taught in school that the capital of China was Peking. (Wow, my spell checker still knows that word!) Anyway, spelling it Beijing didn't mean that they moved the capital to a different city.
At one time, I had a useful link to webpages maintained by the University of Melbourne that helped identify Asian vegetables by scientific name and common names. That information later showed up on an Australian government website. I'm not finding either, today. Can anyone help with that? And, what Asian vegetables make up an important part of your gardening? Or, that you would like to try?
Steve
good gracious! just how old is this tablet and its spell checker??
Leafy greens were, of course, an important part of this. After finally learning the identity of one that was a pleasing favorite at Chinese restaurants for my entire young life, I remember my first venture home with some of those greens from a supermarket. Yuck! The produce manager must have been even more in the dark about the Asian vegetables than I was. Luckily, there was an Asian market not far away and I came to know Asian American gardeners.
Still, there are some problems with integrating European American traditional with Asian gardening. Some of that has to do with names for the plants. While my "Better Vegetable Gardening the Chinese Way," helped me better learn gardening in beds, it's no help with names. Ya know, one problem is adopting one society's name into a different language. I just learned that a veggie that I've grown for decades, and was willing to accept as either bok or pak choy, is also known as "buk" or "bai" choy by some English speakers. Toss choy, choi, or cai into the mix. Sheesh!
Some of the problem is the limitations of the English language. For example, the uncommon use of unaspirated p, t, k, b, d, ɡ ... Maybe some of you remember being taught in school that the capital of China was Peking. (Wow, my spell checker still knows that word!) Anyway, spelling it Beijing didn't mean that they moved the capital to a different city.
At one time, I had a useful link to webpages maintained by the University of Melbourne that helped identify Asian vegetables by scientific name and common names. That information later showed up on an Australian government website. I'm not finding either, today. Can anyone help with that? And, what Asian vegetables make up an important part of your gardening? Or, that you would like to try?
Steve
good gracious! just how old is this tablet and its spell checker??