{"id":131,"date":"2002-12-10T23:48:23-05:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T07:48:23+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=131"},"modified":"2002-12-10T23:48:23-05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-11T07:48:23+00:00","slug":"burdock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/12\/10\/burdock\/","title":{"rendered":"Burdock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote><p>I gave the matter some grave thought, and realized that after last night&#8217;s martini party there was nothing in my icebox except a bit of baking soda, a scrap of blueberry jam and a twig of burdock root.<\/p><\/blockquote><p class=\"source\">Miss Lenni Jabour, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennijabour.com\/story.htm\"><cite>The Story of The Third Floor<\/cite> (December 2002 edition)<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>I remember playing with burrs (the flowers of the burdock plant) as a kid on walks through the woodlots near my parents&#8217; place, but hadn&#8217;t thought much further about them until seeing the text quoted above in Lenni&#8217;s story today.  The things you&#8217;ll learn from reading (with a dash of Google):<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>After experimenting for eight years with plastic models that he designed to mimic burrs, George de Mestral <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/mailbag\/mvelcro.html\">created Velcro<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/essiac-info.org\/herbs.html\">Only buy your burdock root from a reliable supplier;<\/a> at least one has been known to substitute belladonna.<\/li>\n<li>The burdock root has many medicinal uses, such as using it as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.botanical.com\/botanical\/mgmh\/b\/burdoc87.html\">a treatment for scurvy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Burdock root is <a href=\"http:\/\/64.224.162.148\/dcfm\/burd.htm\">known in Japan as Gobo<\/a> (not to be confused with <a href=\"http:\/\/home.snafu.de\/cyber.bernd\/fraggles\/gobo\/egobo.html\">Gobo Fraggle<\/a>).  It <q>is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consciouschoice.com\/cooking\/cooking1402.html\">considered an intensely <cite>yang<\/cite> vegetable<\/a><\/q>.<\/li>\n<li>The most common burdock dish in Japan (and hence the world) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/jtaylor1976\/meenglish\/tastes.htm#kimpira\">kimpira gobo (sauteed burdock)<\/a>, a slightly spicy carrot and burdock stir-fry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve found a project for when I go home at Christmas.  It&#8217;s been a while since I was back in those woods&#8230;.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I gave the matter some grave thought, and realized that after last night&#8217;s martini party there was nothing in my icebox except a bit of baking soda, a scrap of blueberry jam and a twig of burdock root.Miss Lenni Jabour, The Story of The Third Floor (December 2002 edition) I remember playing with burrs (the&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}