In Love with France, At Home In Italy

So here they are--the male eunuch zukes to whom these parts formerly belonged no longer have to suffer from castration anxiety:too late for that!                                               Ant-free zucchini blossoms awaiting their fate In removing the zucchini genitalia, I was following the advice of most of the instructions turned up by my research:that although the pollen-colored male pistils are not harmful to eat, it is customary to remove them before stuffing.           Female blossoms pre and post-surgery;closed males in foreground The bottom line? I learned quite a lot of useful things in my zuke sex-education tutorial: 1. Even though the female blossoms are so much more attractive than the males, to pick a female flower robs its attached baby of the chance to grow big and strong. Now given that overly large zukes can...