Chef's Table: The Truth About Cherries By Jim Coleman
For many of us, spring officially begins when the famous cherry
blossoms burst open in the nation's capital. It's an image Americans
hold dear, but decorating our political arena with cherry trees
was not a homegrown idea. Instead, they were a gift from the Mayor
of Tokyo in 1910, and making them part of Washington's landscape
was merely a matter of good politics.
And what could be more American than the story of George Washington
owning up to chopping down a cherry tree?
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For many of us, spring officially begins when the famous cherry
blossoms burst open in the nation's capital. It's an image Americans
hold dear, but decorating our political arena with cherry trees
was not a homegrown idea. Instead, they were a gift from the Mayor
of Tokyo in 1910, and making them part of Washington's landscape
was merely a matter of good politics.
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