What's to Hate? A Look at the Whole Okra

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - Chris Smith remembers his first okra encounter well. It was at a diner in Georgia.A native of the UK, where growing conditions are not conducive to heat-loving okra, the vegetable was foreign to him. So was the cuisine of the American south.His recollection of that first taste of okra? Slime and grease.While not enamoured by his first okra experience, a later gift of a dry okra seed pod—a pod with a story—ignited his interest in okra.He began to grow it and to experiment with it in his own kitchen, using pods, leaves, flowers, stalks—even the seeds.As that interest and his knowledge of okra grew, Smith started to teach others about it. In his quest for even more okra information, he’s spoken with food historians, researchers, farmers, and chefs.He brings it all together in his book, The Whole Okra, A Seed to Stem Celebration.