Feasts and Fables from the Planted Kingdom™ ● A Gluten Free Story Cookbook

Semaj Brown recounts

“I was running late, there had been a family emergency that prevented me from doing the weekly nutritional and historical research associated with the featured vegetable introduced in Mrs. Brown’s “delicious nutritious dishes.”  Up until this time, my segment had been fairly conventional, deliberately retrograde with Dr. Brown singing, a 1950s style introduction: “What’s for Dinner Mrs. Brown,” and me demurely responding, “Good tasting, delicious.” Time was running out and I went on-air in a flurry.  I conveyed my on-air fluster in a new character that spontaneously generated. I explained to the listeners, “ I sound frazzled because I had been trapped in the garden, attacked by the Onions!” People loved it; the first Fable, “Onion Revolt!” and a Mrs. Brown who could speak plant were born.  After substantial prodding from Planted Kingdom enthusiasts, I went on to record nine of the eleven Fables from the Story Cookbook  as  the recipes remain in the more accessible print story cookbook format.”

 Many feel these Fables stoke a revolutionary way of thinking about plant based nutrition.  Reminiscent of  Ray Bradbury’s  personification  of animals in the American  classic “Animal Farm,”  it is fascinating  how Semaj blurs the Two- Footed and Rooted worlds., how themes of vegetable determination are colorfully  buried in the context of whimsy.  These fables could be described as “Alice in Wonderland meets the Enchanted Broccoli Forest.”  But know something deeper is at root.  Semaj sews subconscious seeds toward a vegetable consciousness which could possibly create healthy pathways that may facilitate positive behavioral change.