Cucumber

Why cucumbers? (Doesn’t everyone know about cucumbers?) Because the time is ripe for a cucumber revolution. Refuse to buy pumped-up, tasteless, seedy blimps with greasy, thick, nasty skin masquerading as cucumbers! Tomato lovers have rallied and restored some valuable forms of the fruit to the market. If some readers are too young or inexperienced to have enjoyed the clean crunch and sweet grassy perfume of this refreshing cucurbit as it is meant to be, they can (albeit with some effort) find examples of the real thing at farmers’ markets and Asian groceries (Japanese, Middle Eastern, Indian, etc.).