The bluest blue

Wow. Super blue berry.

The most intense color in the biological world belongs to a tiny African berry. Iridescent blue and metallic, it literally outshines any other plant or animal substance in the world.

The color is structural color, a kind of color so strong that it is still vivid in the fossils of 50-million-year-old beetles.

Scientists have not figured out the reason for the berries to have this color. What good does it do them?

I don't know. But I'm glad it's there.

The Seventies are Back

Well, the colors of the seventies are back. I noticed this when I stopped in at Bobby’s Burger Palace for lunch.

Gorgeous. Love those colors.

But the tastes are very contemporary. I had a Napa Valley Burger (goat cheese and watercress), and sweet potato fries with a dipping sauce made of Meyer lemon mustard and horseradish.

I haven’t had a burger in years, literally. We usually have veggie burgers or mushroom burgers (marinate a Portabella mushroom cap in balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, and garlic, then put a little blue cheese on it and broil). Both are very tasty, but once every few years a hamburger is just the thing.