{"id":10108,"date":"2011-12-03T05:41:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T05:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/03\/of-brussell-sprouts-and-professor-mondo\/"},"modified":"2011-12-03T05:41:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T05:41:02","slug":"of-brussell-sprouts-and-professor-mondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/03\/of-brussell-sprouts-and-professor-mondo\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Brussels Sprouts and Professor Mondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/profmondo.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Professor Mondo<\/a> describes himself as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I am a medievalist at a small college in a small college town. I like reading, writing, music, and thinking \u2014 practicing any of these individually or in combination. Turnoffs include Brussels sprouts, bad music, and creeping totalitarianism.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Excellent, except I simply do not understand food aversions.&#0160; Nothing edible is foreign to me.&#0160; Pursuing the Terentian parallel into the precincts of (bad) humor:&#0160; I am edible; nothing edible is foreign to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Brussels sprouts were on the menu at Thanksgiving, and mine were pronounced delicious by all parties to the feast.&#0160; But you have to steam the hell out of them and then drench them in a good Hollandaise sauce, itself laced with Tabasco, that marvellous Louisiana condiment simply unsurpassed in its class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The same steaming-and-saucing treatment&#0160;works wonders with broccoli and other stink-weeds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Mondo describes himself as follows: I am a medievalist at a small college in a small college town. I like reading, writing, music, and thinking \u2014 practicing any of these individually or in combination. Turnoffs include Brussels sprouts, bad music, and creeping totalitarianism. Excellent, except I simply do not understand food aversions.&#0160; Nothing edible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/12\/03\/of-brussell-sprouts-and-professor-mondo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of Brussels Sprouts and Professor Mondo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-food-and-drink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}