Thursday, August 25, 2011

Raspberries



This year's spring yielded a bucketful of raspberries on our two-year-old bushes. The berries were small, but very sweat, and the most delicious raspberries I personally have every eaten!

For any of you who know of the show, Numb3rs, in a recent episode, Larry notes that the chemical Ethyl Formate which is responsible for giving raspberries their flavor, was found in space by scientists looking for amino acids (a building block of life). I thought this was interesting, but the cosmos really doesn't taste like raspberries; it would take a great deal of other molecules to make outer space a raspberry flavored place!