Small Disappointments [NOT 5/7/22]

5/7/22 brightersideoflife 14

Hi, friends!

Tonight’s NOT brought to you by things that don’t matter but are still really disappointing when you get down to it.

I bought a book at the Missouri Botanical Gardens over the weekend – “The Forager’s Kitchen Handbook – Foraging Tips and over 100 Recipes Using What You Can Find for Free.”

I was in a rush so I read the title, grabbed the book, bought it, and came home. Fast forward to today, and yeeeeeeeep turns out the author lives in Scotland and all the plants are endemic to the British Isles. The chapter on seaweed and shellfish… also not helpful. I mean I totally know where there are random quince and wild plum trees, doesn’t everyone? 8 pages of recipes involving elderberries? Why yes that super helpful when all I have nearby is pokeweed which looks a lot like it but is toxic.

I just…. who the fuck orders a foraging book written by someone based on a different continent? With exception of dandelions and honeysuckle (invasive, and introduced), I don’t think there was anything else in the book that I even see here. Deep sigh. That was a waste of $15. And could have been avoided had I taken a few minutes to page through it.

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14 Comments

  1. Time to channel Karen and Chad, go return that book, slam it on the counter and demand your money back, and when they tell you it’s the library and they don’t sell books, call your Senator.

  4. That book choice SUCKS, Brighter!😠😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

    If you go back, you should tell them that they ought to be carrying these instead😉💖;

    https://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/mdc-offers-new-cooking-wild-missouri-cookbook

    (The link doesn’t really seem to work, but the book is for sale here; https://www.mdcnatureshop.com/MDCWebHome//Merchandise/MerchandiseSale.aspx )

    This one looks COOL & is honestly one I’m kiiiinda tempted to get at some point, because we have plenty of the things mentioned (wood sorrel, plantain, & dandelion) up here, too! https://www.feastmagazine.com/springfield/article_2bb28da0-1cb2-11ec-9b54-3b15d5496000.html

    And the berries cookbook looks really interesting, too;

    https://www.target.com/p/cooking-wild-berries-fruits-of-il-ia-mo-foraging-cookbooks-by-teresa-marrone-spiral-bound/-/A-85135843

    Then there’s the Sioux Chef cookbook–i can TOTALLY vouch for this one, because I got it back when it came out😉

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sioux_Chef%27s_Indigenous_Kitchen

    https://www.feastmagazine.com/springfield/article_2bb28da0-1cb2-11ec-9b54-3b15d5496000.html

     

  5. Tonight’s NOT brought to you by things that don’t matter but are still really disappointing when you get down to it.

    I’m going to counter this by saying there is something that very much does matter going on that, for the first time, my mind cannot handle and it is affecting me physically to the point that I am even behaving in a way that is very much unlike myself…

    …and there is literally nothing I can do or say about it…

    …besides apologising for my behaviour.

    But hey, at least I feel something. So I am going to consider it progress and figure out how to suppress it because surely my mind should be capable of winning in the end?

     

    • Supreme Court (and realizing that in fact most of us down here have zero enforceable personal rights) got you all twitchety, too, Myo?**🥴

       

      Whatever it is, which has you as twitchety as down/over here, I hope your stuff gets as better as possible, as quickly as it can!💖💫💝

      **(Slightly joking, but at the same time, not really a joke, too🙁😧🙃)

    • @myopicprophet I’m very sorry you’re stuck sitting with information that is having such an intense effect on your life. Hopefully soon you can find a person to discuss it with who would be okay – like I’ve been stuck sitting on work information before that I legit can’t share with anyone in the office or friend information that I cannot talk to anyone about – and it fucking sucks.

      If it helps, in my experience when that happens, I usually have a about 3-5 days of my intense duress and then my mind and body kinda go welp, fuck it, suppress the reaction because she’s stuck with this.

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