Lina Fredj’s Reviews > The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes > Status Update

“(according to taste, but the pikles should be hot. If not, it will be what Haitians call por blans, which means “white people food,” which is not a good thing).”
That parenthesis was funny.

“Onions were eaten by all, but they were a food the poor could depend on.”

Two brilliant things stood out so far in this book:
The referencing ability of the author, pulling from Ancient and Classical literary sources and shrewdly interpreting the occurrences;
The economic analyses of financial and social systems through onion consumption, culture, and distribution.

“Elizabeth Bacon Custer, the widow of the infamous George Armstrong Custer, did not write of his racism and genocide, but she did write about onions”…
An essay is brewing.

“As with mathematics, literature, astronomy, and many other subjects, the Arabs were far ahead of Europeans on onions.” Fine, Marc, you are forgiven.

“Palestinians sometimes arrive at protests with an onion, which some believe can protect them from Israeli tear gas.” I have never heard this claim before but I’ll take this as a small ideological redemption for the earlier ideological ineptitudes

“on the Israeli coast near Tel Aviv” 😒 my autistic love for onions is currently grappling with my ideological beliefs to decide whether or not to DNF

Chives are a subcategory of onions!! Extraordinary!!!