arugula, apothecary, dispensing“prescription produce”serving

The farm stand is becoming the new apothecary, dispensing apples — not to mention artichokes, asparagus and arugula — to fill a novel kind of prescription.

這個農場的攤位正在成為新的藥劑處，配蘋果 - 更不用提朝鮮薊，蘆筍和芝麻菜 - 開一新種處方。
Doctors at three health centers in Massachusetts have begun advising patients to eat “prescription produce處方農產品” from local farmers’ markets, in an effort to fight obesity in children of low-income families. Now they will give coupons amounting to $1 a day for each member of a patient’s family to promote healthy meals.


“The goal is to get them to increase their consumption of fruit and vegetables by one serving a day.”

蔡珠兒新增了 3 張新相片。

出門前灑了籽，一個月後回來，芝麻菜已一片翠茂，清嫩可食。採了菜，在園裡的水龍頭下沖淨，芝麻香撲鼻，忍不住抓起來現吃，一口接一口，像羊啃草，快意大嚼。真好吃，生脆鮮辣，又嫩又嗆，滿口早春野氣。

這菜名字特多，很容易把人搞混。除了芝麻菜，內地各省各有土名，遼寧叫臭菜，黑龍江叫香油罐，四川叫臭蘿蔔，香臭之辨，存乎一心。英文一般叫rocket，源自法文的roquette，香港因而直譯，叫它火箭菜。但rocket是英國、澳洲、紐西蘭等英聯邦的叫法，美國就不同了，叫arugula，來自義大利文的rucola。

長相也頗有差異，一般是深裂的羽狀複葉，我種的這種卻不太裂，看來像小芥菜，長高開花了，又像蘿蔔，花色米白，有淺紫稜脈。

Marc Chagall Art

Apothecary in Vitebsk, 1914

arugula

Line breaks: aru|gula

Pronunciation: /əˈruːɡjʊlə /

(also rucola, rugola)

Definition of arugula in English:

NOUN

[MASS NOUN] North American

The rocket plant, used in cookery.

EXAMPLE SENTENCES

Origin

1970s: from Italian dialect, ultimately a diminutive ofLatin eruca 'down-stemmed plant'.

a·poth·e·car·y (ə-pŏth'ĭ-kĕr'ē)

n., pl., -ies.

1. One that prepares and sells drugs and other medicines; a pharmacist.
2. See pharmacy (sense 2).

[Middle English apotecarie, from Old French apotecaire and from Medieval Latin apothēcārius, both from Late Latin, clerk, from Latin apothēca, storehouse, from Greek apothēkē : apo-, away; see apo- + thēkē, receptacle.]