John Evelyn's Salad Sermon #8 Melon

John was a big fan and melons are a good news story with no caveats at all (and apparently one of the few things he does not associate with the creation or the easing of wind!), he says of them:

Transcendent delicacy and flavour, cooling and exhilarating nature, not only superior to all the gourd kind but paragon with the noblest productions of the garden.

Just as well we are growing some this summer then...

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