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Poke Salad Bessie

By Jesse Yancy

Jackson Free Press | June 3, 2005

Euell Gibbons lauds poke as "probably the best-known and most widely-used wild vegetable in America." Yancy demystifies it with a little help from his old babysitter Bessie.

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