A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
— Aldous Huxley, 1937, in Ch. 7 of "Ends and Means"
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I use parsley as a substitute for kale
I haven't seen kale here, but at least the Russian kale would be possible to grow here (takes both cold and heat well from when I grew it in Philadelphia).
Parsley is available most markets here, and makes a nice cooked addition to soups and stews, very much as I used kale.
Cabbage is kale with a selection for heading, same species. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea Broccoli is another B oleracea plant and you can use the leaves from it as a cooking green or fresh green. It's available here from street vendors (I think their family farms are growing it).
Rebecca Brown