SHOOTS OF SPRING

Tender young bamboo was a vegetable much loved by literati鲜嫩竹笋,食之忘俗"Better to have no meat to eat than live where there are no bamboos/A lack of meat makes one thin,while a lack of bamboo renders one vulgar,"the poet and gourmand Su Shi opined in the 11th century,invoking a traditional comparison between the tough,unyielding bamboo