By Jeanne Osnas and Katherine Preston (Botanists in the Kitchen) @BitKBlog
Sugar is an excellent preservative.
Editor’s note: Botany meets the chopping board today in the first of two stories by the Botanists in the Kitchen. Looking back through their blog you can meet an extraordinary diversity of brassicas to supplement the traditional sprout as well as many other kitchen focused plant stories. But today there is a distinctly sweet taste to their #AdventBotany Blog….
Sugar plums dance, sugar cookies disappear from Santa’s plate, and candied fruit cake gets passed around and around. Crystals of sugar twinkle in the Christmas lights, like scintillas of sunshine on the darkest day of the year. Katherine and Jeanne explore the many plant sources of sugar.
Even at a chemical level, there is something magical and awe-inspiring about sugar. Plants – those silent, gentle creatures – have the power to harness air and water and the fleeting light energy of a giant fireball 93 million miles away to forge sugar, among the most versatile compounds on earth, and a fuel used by essentially all living organisms.
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