{"id":3347,"date":"2013-10-04T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T01:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2015-11-13T22:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T06:00:42","slug":"bitter-melon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2013\/10\/bitter-melon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitter melon"},"content":{"rendered":"

One sunday morning, Dora came up to me with something in her hand. “You said you like bitter food, right?” she said.<\/p>\n

“I love bitter things,” I said.<\/p>\n

“Then you should try this,” she said, holding out a small, wrinkled green vegetable. “It’s called bitter melon.”<\/p>\n

She told me how to prepare it: slice it open, scoop the seeds and pulp out, slice it up and stir-fry it, maybe mixing it with some other vegetables and perhaps some kind of meat, like sausages. Dora comes from a Chinese family, but bitter melon is not just Chinese; when Hong, who is Vietnamese, saw the bitter melon, her eyes lit up, and it turns out she loves it, too — sauteed with garlic, in her case. Both of them agreed that not everyone likes bitter melon.<\/p>\n

You’d think a New England Yankee like me, raised on mild and restrained flavors, would not care for bitter melon. But I love it. It’s not an extreme taste; I think of it as being mildly bitter, maybe about as bitter as strong turnips. I haven’t been able to find it in any supermarkets, but fortunately there is one farmer at the San Mateo farmer’s market who carries both the white and green varieties.<\/p>\n

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One sunday morning, Dora came up to me with something in her hand. “You said you like bitter food, right?” she said. “I love bitter things,” I said. “Then you should try this,” she said, holding out a small, wrinkled green vegetable. “It’s called bitter melon.” She told me how to prepare it: slice it … Continue reading “Bitter melon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[434],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-area-calif","tag-bitter-melon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}