The lowly cucumber: a tragically underappreciated vegetable if there ever was one. With all the crazy recent food trends in which under-utilized vegetables such as kale and cauliflower became rock stars, the cucumber has been ignored. What a crime!
When I ponder the unsung cucumber, and this happens more than I would care to admit, my mind often wonders to a hot, humid summer’s day. A sultry day in which the whole body, yes you could even say the soul, cries out for seemingly unattainable refreshment. It is as if I have taken on the persona Heathcliff as he suffers and fails in his attempts to gain the affections of Catherine. Fortunately, unlike Heathcliff, there is a cure for my unquenchable thirst: a cool and succulent cucumber.