If you can't Beat 'em, Eat 'em!

Garlic mustard in the early spring

     Queen Liz will receive special treatment from the cooks on England's Severn River on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee.

           Apparently, all the way back to the Middle Ages, a delicious Lamprey Pie has been baked and served to English sovereigns on special occasions, but lamprey eels, the parasitic scourge of Lake Ontario and other Great Lakes, are now rare in in Gloucester, and chefs there have  had to import these wriggly bloodsuckers from North America to make the heritage dish.  Looks like they were baked into near extinction in that part of the world! How refreshing to view an invasive species as a delicacy  !

       I've heard some people say that Todmorden's Wildflower preserve "is being destroyed by garlic mustard." Garlic Mustard is a prolific woodland plant which crowds out native wildflowers on which insects and wildlife depend. It makes a delicious pesto, however, which Todmorden cooks and interpreters sometimes make in the cottage kitchen. Todmorden could start hosting an Invasivore Festival, and  harvest its invasives for fun and profit!

Yeah, for invasivores! If you can't Beat 'Em, Eat 'Em!