{"id":365,"date":"2010-11-26T06:14:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T11:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/picking-and-cooking-beautyberry.html"},"modified":"2010-11-26T06:14:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T11:14:17","slug":"picking-and-cooking-beautyberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/picking-and-cooking-beautyberry.html","title":{"rendered":"Picking and cooking beautyberry"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5208224155\/in\/set-72157625345537663\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5087\/5208224155_239f64298e_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nThose small violet berries in the woods: it&#8217;s beautyberry, and you can eat it.\n(No, not pokeberry; those are larger, and the stems are purple.)\nBeautyberry grows in clumps that you can pick like you&#8217;re milking\nthe bush.\n<p>\nFirst, find some ripe ones:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5208269559\/in\/set-72157625345537663\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4152\/5208269559_8c44310cbe.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nPick them and wash them:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5208224421\/in\/set-72157625345537663\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5250\/5208224421_a99da33432.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nAnd boil them:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5208856062\/in\/set-72157625345537663\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5003\/5208823318_bedc24ca76.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nTo be continued&#8230;.\n<p>\nPictures of Callicarpa americana, Lowndes County, Georgia, 12 Oct 2010, as well as picking, cooking, by Gretchen Quarterman.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those small violet berries in the woods: it&#8217;s beautyberry, and you can eat it. (No, not pokeberry; those are larger, and the stems are purple.) Beautyberry grows in clumps that you can pick like you&#8217;re milking the bush. First, find some ripe ones: Pick them and wash them: And boil them: To be continued&#8230;. Pictures [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,207,41,43,36],"tags":[1123,2808,245,341,3,23,2,1124],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-beautyberry","category-food","category-gardening","category-silviculture","tag-12-oct-2010","tag-beautyberry","tag-callicarpa-americana","tag-cooking","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-picking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-5T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}