Too Many Cooks: give peas a chance  Are frozen peas the ultimate
convenience vegetable or sad eugenicised sacs of wet
chlorophyll?  Carruthers Purple Podded Peas Carruthers purple
podded peas - an old English variety. Photograph: David Sillitoe
Tolerance is a wonderful thing in a relationship. I have
unashamed respect for couples who co-exist happily in spite of
vastly differing cultural or religious roots. It's a great thing
to be able to sustain love for another human being even when
they hold to a belief system that you find, at best absurd -
well someone has to marry Tories - and at worst, heretical. I
speak from bitter experience, maintaining as I do an almost
superhuman level of tolerance of the Baker's ludicrous belief in
frozen peas.  Depending on which delusional, swivel-eyed legume
evangelist you speak to, peas are either unharmed or, in extreme
cases of quasi religious mania, actually enhanced by the
freezing process. They will give you chapter and verse on the
vast fields of peas harvested in Nor