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Charles Heiser Remembers Botanist Edgar Anderson and his Recipe for Spam with Loganberries
“I think one of the worst dishes I have ever eaten was his spam covered with bread crumbs soaked in Loganberry juice – perhaps because he raved about it so.” February 6, 1946 On this day, the botanist Edgar Anderson wrote a letter of encouragement to his old student Charles Heiser Jr. Edgar and Charles…
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The Gift of Good Students The botanist Edgar Anderson wrote to his student Charles B Heiser Jr: “Oh stamp collecting, when will taxonomists ever take any interest in being biologists? Once, when I traveled with E.J. Palmer, I went to a good deal of trouble to get a whole sheet of lily pods, and he…
Read MoreFebruary 6, 2020 The Aphid Alarm Pheromone, Stealing Cuttings, Prospero Alpini, Joseph Sabine, Capability Brown, Edgar Anderson, Charles Heiser, Winter World by Bernd Heinrich, Ladbrooke Soil Blocker, and Spam with Loganberry Sauce
Today we celebrate the Italian botanist who introduced coffee and bananas to Europe and the botanist who described new varieties of mums from China on this day in 1822. We’ll learn about the man who could see the capabilities of a landscape In the botanist who wrote encouraging letters to one of his students. Today’s…
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