11th March 2013
Guinea fowl with carrots and cumin
When I was young, carrots were orange. Standardised orange. I did not even imagine it could be different. But the wild carrots that grew in the area of Afghanistan, some five thousand years ago, had various colours. According to the carrot museum (yes, there is one, be it virtual only) it is due to Dutch growers (oh no, not again) that carrots became widely used in […]