Best of the week at PRA, May 31-June 6

Here at Poor Richard’s Almanac, we’ve taken to picking our own favorite posts from the past week and listing them here, so if you’ve missed something intriguing, it will be easy for you to find it by scrolling down or simply entering the post’s title in our search bar at upper right. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we’ve enjoyed writing them!

This week’s picks:

Rabid for radishes: Silence Dogood shares some great links to radish recipes and encourages everyone to try pickled radishes.

In praise of privet: Our friend Ben tells everyone why you should love this humble and abused shrub.

Persimmon surprise: OFB sees beautiful persimmon blooms for the first time.

Vegetarian cookbook roundup: Silence shares three of the latest additions to her cookbook collection and tells why you might want to add them to your own cookbook shelf.

Which monarchs do you love to hate? Richard Saunders responds to a reader query with a list of the all-time worst, and invites you to add your own favorite baddies.