Warning: do not eat day lily flowers in the city’s parks, you are breaking the law! That’s the message the City Room is relaying after publishing a post on Saturday encouraging people to feast on the “delicious” shoots, prompting commenters to swiftly reprimand them. Read more »
The New York Times went foraging for maple syrup and found some, in Brooklyn! It was a lot easier than expected and according to one expert, there’s plenty of maple trees producing syrup “all winter long” and more than enough to provide for a thriving industry with the right entrepreneurial spirit: “If someone did it on a commercial scale they could make a fortune.” |TheLocal|
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When warned about the dangers of eating fish from New York City waterways, one Bronx fisherman remarked, “If it was poisonous, they’d put up a sign.” Turns out they, being the Parks department, did, two years ago. But of the “hundreds” of signs installed, the Daily News only managed to find one illegible plaque alerting the public to the consequences of eating the PCB and mercury laden fish. |NYDN|
Times are tough in New York City, and like Detroit, Wall Street’s financial ass-raping has forced the poorer segments of the populace to resort to new ways of procuring food. And while raccoons provide some good eating in Motor City, it’s all about contaminated fish in Gotham. Ghetto fisherman, many with families to feed, are dropping their lines into the city’s brackish waterways and catching fish riddled with PCBs and other cancer causing pollutants. But some aren’t convinced of the danger and trust that the city would alert them if the freshly caught food wasn’t edible. Says one fisherman from the Bronx, “If it was poisonous, they’d put up a sign.” |NYDN|
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