{"id":831,"date":"2010-12-31T05:34:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T05:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=831"},"modified":"2023-07-14T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T16:45:37","slug":"eat-your-fractals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/eat-your-fractals\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat your fractals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday I was acquiring sustenance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainbow.coop\">Rainbow Grocery<\/a> when I came across an edible fractal in the produce section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/5308642566\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5087\/5308642566_28a460d619.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1642\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The label described it as <b>romanesco broccoli.<\/b> I immediately whipped out my iPhone and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romanesco_broccoli\">looked it up on Wikipedia.<\/a> Sure enough, Wikipedia describes romanesco broccoli as having &#8220;&#8230;a visually striking example of an approximate fractal in nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, a fractal you can eat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then it gets stranger. The following day my family was in town for a visit to Golden Gate Park. For lunch we headed to Park Chow. My order came with a side of &#8212; guess what? &#8212; romanesco broccoli! I was surprised to say the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the taste, it&#8217;s got a broccoli flavor with a denser texture, a bit like cauliflower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast forward to the following morning, when I was reading BoingBoing. And guess what? They illustrated their post about vegetarian diets with nothing other than <a>a photo of romanesco broccoli.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What would Carl Jung say about all this? I wasn&#8217;t alone in my ignorance, a dozen or so friends and family I quizzed had never heard of romanesco broccoli before. Could it be the ghost of the recently deceased Benoit Mandelbrot is contacting us from beyond the grave with edible fractals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday I was acquiring sustenance at Rainbow Grocery when I came across an edible fractal in the produce section. The label described it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Eat your fractals - MrEricSir.com","description":"On Monday I was acquiring sustenance at Rainbow Grocery when I came across an edible fractal in the produce section. The label described it as romanesco broccol"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[334,155,331,335,38,336,333,23,332],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-boingboing","tag-food","tag-fractals","tag-mandelbrot","tag-photos","tag-rainbow","tag-romanesco-broccoli","tag-san-francisco","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10408,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions\/10408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}