If you haven’t caught on from my previous posts, I love to talk to people, especially about food (I guess I’m in the right profession!). I had the pleasure of talking to an older gentleman who grew up, and still resides in, the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. As I was cutting 20 angel food cakes (really) at the retirement home, he said he just didn’t like strawberries, which were being put on top of the cakes. He prefers mulberries and detailed the ingenious way in which he would pick them when growing up. Most of the mulberry trees they kept were shrub like rather than the full trees that you sometimes see. Since the berries were so difficult to gather in large amounts, he would place an umbrella opened upside down underneath the foliage and shake the bush. The berries (and some leaves) would drop into the umbrella; far less tedious than handpicking. After bringing the berries home, he would set them out on a piece of newspaper and place a fan nearby, which would blow the leaves out of the pile.
How else could you learn about this, other than by just talking to people?
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