The Secret Jewish History of Arugula
Arugula was recommended as an ideal vegetable to act as karpas – the bitter green – at the Passover Seder by Amram Ga’on, the ninth-century rabbi and Talmudic genius. There was a point in time when arugula was a code: a vegetable that said “here is the great white bobo-latte-liberal!” All the way back in…