SC - Re: turnips
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Tue Jun 17 08:37:12 PDT 1997
Mark Schuldenfrei wrote:
> The bags are clearly labelled turnips. They do, however, contain orange
> rutebega. I have, rarely, seen frozen diced turnips qua turnips.
>
> May I be honest? While most of the time I am an authenticity nutcase on
> food issues, I don't know why I don't seem to care much on this one. Maybe
> because I think they taste quite similarly. And that most people don't know
> the difference. (And, depending upon where you are in the world, and when,
> they are called different things, as Adamantius knows from discussions on
> rec.food.historic) Heck, I bet daikon would work in the recipe. (But not
> potatoes. We went over that.)
>
> De Rutebagae non Disputandum son. (:-) Or something very like that.
My money's on kohlrabi! Though daikon sounds good, too.
Adamantius
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