It seems that
the human beings are still at their debut with communication.
Yes, there are
telephone, computers, newspapers, TVs, satellites. All these are “outside”,
attachments, systems we control (not always) but they are out of our body. We
can send signals able to travel through air waves, or use a pen to write a
message.
It seems that
we are not able to utilize, for instance, these invisible high-ways without the
help of machines.
The only –
wonderful – way we have to communicate to each other is the Word, our voice.
It seems,
also, that human beings – perhaps because of too much aid from outside
attachments? – have lost their innate instinct, the capability of perception,
the willing and capacity of listening to their “inside” voice.
Still
researchers agree in saying that we are actually using only a small part of our
brains and that they don’t know what the rest of it is there for.
The question
is: would we be able to communicate through thoughts? Or through something
else?
Some animals –
perhaps all animals – do.
The
Butterflies Monarcha communicate through their genes.
The life of
these butterflies is a perpetual migration.
At the
beginning of spring, when weather gets too hot in Mexico, they leave to Canada
and travel for six months. As they arrive to Canada at the beginning of fall,
they start the return to Mexico for another six months. Then the cycle begins again, endless.
A butterfly
does not survive as much as to cover the entire cycle.
During the
crossing they deposit their eggs and die. The larvae transform in worms, then cocoons. As the new
butterfly breaks it shell, continues the travel of the mother, which ever is
the direction, to the North or to the South. Six generations of butterflies are
needed to complete the year cycle.
How do the new
born butterflies know which is the direction to take one out of the cocoon? How
can they discern if their mother was going to North or to South? Or, instead,
if the mother had already got to the end of one way and had to take the way
back?
Surely mother
and kid do not talk, as, by the time they are born, the mother has already died.
How does the information pass from generation to generation?
Researchers
found out that the information necessary for their survival is in their genes.
The communication happens through genetic means. They talk by genes.
I want to
believe that such a cool thing happens also in human beings.
My mother is a
“sane carrier” of the genes through which my grandmother transmitted to me this
recipe, as my mother has never cooked it. But my granny was able to cook it
heavenly once back from her tiny garden behind the rainbow row of houses along
the sea harbour, with her bucket full of
the few, but delicious fruits releasing a scented trail
of earth and sun as she walked.
She never
explained me doses and procedure: it was just a genetic passage.
FARFALLE AI PROFUMI DI PRIMAVERA
BUTTERFLIES - BOW TIE PASTA - WITH SPRING SCENTS
Ingredients
for 4:
350 gr ( 12
Oz) Butterflies of Bow tie pasta
500 gr ( 1.1
lb) fresh sweet peas in the pod
500 gr (1.1
lb) fresh tender fava beans in the pod
2 spring
onions
1 small carrot
30 gr ( 2 tbs)
extra virgin olive oil
30 gr ( 2 tbs)
butter
50 gr ( 1 ½
Oz) fresh Marzolino, sheep milk cheese produced in spring, when the flock
graves the new tender grass and the
fresh cheese – aged about 15 days – gets the delicate flavours of the first
spring sun
salt and
pepper
Shell the peas
and the fava beans.
Clean and
slice finely the spring onions.
Peel and shred
the carrot.
Put in a large
skillet the olive oil, half of the
butter, the onion, the carrot, ¼ cup water and a pinch of salt. Put on low
heat. as it starts to sizzle, put a lid on and let it cook sweetly until the
vegetables are soft and the water evaporated.
Add the peas
and fava beans with another ¼ cup of water. Do not cover, so that the light
bitterness of fava beans would go away. Stir occasionally and cook until they
are tender.
Regulate salt
and pepper.
Bring to boil
a pot with plenty water.
Meanwhile
shred half of the cheese and flake the remaining.
Salt the water
as it starts to bubble; cook the pasta and drain it “al dente”, reserving some
of the cooking water.
Toss the pasta
into the skillet adding the remaining butter, the shredded cheese, a couple
spoons of cooking water.
Plate in four
individual dishes and sprinkle the flakes cheese on top. It would melt
slightly.
Comments
Post a Comment