IN CASE YOU’RE WONDERING, IT’S A BOY!
http://franceoritaly.blogspot.it/2011/07/sexing-zucchini-and-eating-it-too.html TO BE EGALITARIAN AND JUST SO NOBODY GETS OFFENDED, IT SEEMED FITTING TO SET OFF THIS PROUDLY MALE ZUKE WITH A FEMININE-LOOKING PUMPKIN IN THE BACKGROUND. (CINDERELLA, ANYONE?) IN CASE YOU’RE WONDERING, IT’S A BOY! Today is a royally BIG day for babywatching. Like a certain princely baby who took his time getting here, my zucchini have been slow to deliver. It’s not really their fault, since this year’s Umbrian weather has been molto strano—the coldest, wettest pre-summer in memory. It’s only now that the vegetable garden is starting to come into its own. Sex is important not just to royal families and those of us ogling at the gate: to be precise, Italian has a different word for the sex of male as opposed to female zuke blossoms:zucchino, zucchina. Naïve budding contadina that I am, it took me a while to understand this, a study I documented two...