Folks have been eating asparagus for upwards of 2000 years. Its unique shape means that it is completely unsurprising that the ancient Greeks used it as an aphrodisiac. Forgotten in the Middle Ages, asparagus came back to the fore in the court of ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV of France. The European asaparagus season is short, and when the stuff is available, chefs go mad for it. The British season for…
