Speaking of Japanese trade agreements…
Posted by R. Neal
Wordjunky wonders in comments below if the Japanese might be willing to take back their Kudzu as part of any trade agreements with the South.
Most would agree that would be a pretty good trade. Others, though, make the best of it…
OK, then.
Wordjunky wonders in comments below if the Japanese might be willing to take back their Kudzu as part of any trade agreements with the South.Most would agree that would be a pretty good trade. Others, though, make the best of it…
- Here's a University of Alabama website with everything you ever wanted to know about Kudzu, and here's the official National Park Service site on Kudzu management.
- Then there's Blythewood, SC, home of the Blythewood Kudzu Festival, which is held each year in the IGA parking lot and features a Miss Kudzu pageant, a Kudzu eating contest, a Kudzu landscaping contest, Kudzu cultivation tips, Kudzu recipes, and more.
- Speaking of recipes, here a site devoted to Kudzu Cuisine, with nutritional information and a few sample recipes from their Kudzu Cookbook. There's also a companion website called Kudzu Kingdom with more Kudzu related information, stories, and books. You can even order Kudzu seeds there.
- There's also a popular comic strip inspired by Kudzu, called, well, Kudzu, by North Carolina native Doug Marlette.
- The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries maintains a networked database of online catalogs at participating research libraries across the Southeast that connects approximately 300,000 students and faculty to more than 30 million volumes. It is appropriately named Kudzu.
- And last but not least, here's a website on the medicinal properties of Kudzu, including its use as a cure for hangovers (apparently it "helps the clear yang rise, and the turbid yin descend").
OK, then.
6 Comments:
I love the headlines and the pic... but you gotta admit, kudzu does a good job of covering up those old texile mills down south--now if we could just get it to cover up the rusting away auto and steel mills up north, we'd forget we use to have industry in this country...
It is also useful for preventing drunkenness -- alcohol's effect is blunted when kudzu is administered before drinking.
As one alcoholic said to me: "Well what fun is that?" For preventing alcoholism, making drinking less fun would go a long way toward a solution,
A kudzu eating contest?
No. No way. I'd starve to death first, and Anheuser-Busch couldn't brew enough beer in a year to get me drunk enough to consider eating it...
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Scorpio's right. That's part of the information found through the link provided to the Chinese medicine site (which is mine, thank you very much).
I might also add that Kudzu is a food too. I've most often seen it in Korean cooking, but I believe it shows up in Chinese cuisine from time to time as well.
The way I ate it with my Korean friend is as a boiled vegie. Its closest to boiled potatoes in my opinion.
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