Ode to Asparagus -- Operatically

And here we were, thinking we’d done an adequate job of building a shrine for asparagus. Have a listen to a part of the opera known as “White Asparagus Soup,” and it’ll be clear: we’ve officially been upstaged.

As the saying goes, the declaration of love for a vegetable is never complete until an opera is composed in its honor. Asparagus lovers everywhere, rejoice, and consider the declaration complete: an orchestral ode to the spring vegetable now exists.

Co-created by chef Jason Bond and composer Ben Houge, the opera is appropriately titled Food Opera: Four Asparagus Compositions, and, according to the vegetable enthusiast masterminds behind it, it “emphasizes the woody element of asparagus with the cello and marimba,” and has a “kind of rolling, liquid quality to it.”

Listen to a Clip From Harvard’s Asparagus Opera from Grub Street