Hey, bulbashki, want to know how to get cultured in one word? Pesto. You show people that you understand pesto and they will look at you and know that you are a cultured person.

Why is this annoying little dish so invasive into our understanding of food? What makes this little mix of greens and fats and perhaps other ingredients who might enjoy the dance so irrefutable? Why is it our choice once we discover it?

Because it’s too simple. It’s so simple it’s stupid. And it’s so stupid, it’s actually food. That’s the secret. Pesto is not a sauce. Pesto is the food.

And I am just rubbing my eyes with the ridiculousness of my situation. It seems that I have the luck of the Jewish and have ended up in Belarus and managed to hang around long enough to be privileged.

Yeah, this is another one of those blogs where the sounds of my neighbors killing their children disturb my thoughts. I don’t know why they can’t put two plus two together. They have an extremely sick family that does not seem to want to live and yet they can’t quite take responsibility for the habitat they created for them.

Well, there goes the fucking business of selling this stuff. I mean, if I do nothing to stop the spread of horseradish, I will have a horseradish farm. And the thing is that horseradish makes wonderful pesto. It’s spicy, it is very fibrous and it is at all stages of development an absolute must of your springtime diet. But now everybody knows that I live next to the psychopaths who poisoned everything in my garden along with their family and myself and everyone else in any type of proximity to them. Patient one. The core of cancer. They are the black spot on the scan that changes everyone’s life. They are Wagners.

Man, I really wanted to say something beautiful about all you need if you live at 52 degrees north latitude is sunflower seeds and xren. You can add a little oil if you need the texture or want the extra fat or flavor, whatever your usual salt intake and a bit of vinegar or lemon can’t hurt you. And for you absolute heathens, if you’ve got some avocado, now is the time to use it, hard or soft and let Mr blender do his thing.

So this is for pasta, right? It’s also for rice. It’s on bread. It’s in a leaf that you really like and wish to use instead of bread for a sandwich. Or it’s just on a spoon because it’s food that’s ridiculously tasty. However, if you’re really dousing it with oil, use some chickpea flour to sop it up a bit and make sure it’s on some brown rice or something like that.