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How was rhubarb found to be edible? It certainly isn’t palatable raw.
Chris Robinson
London, UK
As a child in the north of England, I was often kept quiet with a stick of rhubarb and a saucer of sugar: dip and bite. I imagine that the many periods of starvation in human history expanded the boundary of what is considered edible.
Robert Bernstein
Santa Barbara, California, US
In rural Connecticut as a child, our farmer neighbour gave me some of her raw rhubarb and I was delighted at the tart flavour. I only stopped eating rhubarb later when I found…
