Saturday Evening Post, May 1st, 2001
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When I was a child growing up in The Netherlands, I often begged my mother to tell me this story about an experience her family had at the end of World War II.
During the terrible last winter of the German occupation, the hongenwinter, food was very scarce in the Netherlands. People were so desperately hungry, they began to eat small animals and many things not normally considered edible, including tulip bulbs. People discovered the bulbs could be cooked like potatoes ...
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