Karen Barnaby: It's cool to celebrate cucumber

We had a small garden when I was growing up and grew delicious cucumbers as well as carrots, tomatoes, green beans and potatoes.
My favourite way to eat the cucumbers was in their freshly picked condition because nothing beats the crunch of a freshly picked and chilled cucumber. The second way was in a sandwich with Rideau Bakery’s delicious, light caraway rye bread, spread with butter and sprinkled with salt.
To reduce the bitterness that these cucumbers purportedly held, my grandmother t