Friday, February 14, 2014

Va-lent-ine

As Ed hinted at, today is no time to read blogs.
To stay in context, I read from an authorized source that "Valentine" means "Go Lentils" in Latin. ;) So which one do you grow? Coral, blond, green, Le Puy, brown, beluga?



Beluga lentil


Lentils and peas are probably the most ancient pulse cultivated. Lentils even figure in Genesis, and at least it's something that no professor can prove wrong, like the Israeli archaelogists who showed this week that Abraham's son could not possibly have ridden a camel, also in Genesis:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/archaeologists-discovery-suggests-bible-wrong-camels-article-1.1613173

Coral lentil

Blond lentil

Green lentil

Le Puy green lentil

Brown lentil
Chimel.

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