SC - artichokes
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LrdRas at aol.com
Wed Aug 30 06:46:57 PDT 2000
In a message dated 8/30/00 12:19:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
stefan at texas.net writes:
<< There do appear to be at least two types of artichokes. One is
European and one is American. From this, I imagine what I see in
the vegetable counters here in the US is the "Jerusalem artichoke",
right? >>
European artichokes or Globe artichokes are flower buds. They are green and
consist of overlapping scales.
ar*ti*choke (noun)
[Italian dialect articiocco, ultimately from Arabic al-khurshuf the
artichoke]
First appeared 1530
1 : a tall composite herb (Cynara scolymus) like a thistle with coarse
pinnately incised leaves; also : its edible immature flower head which is
cooked as a vegetable
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Jerusalem artichokes are tubers which are cream colored and similar in
appearance to a skinless extremely knotty potato.
Je*ru*sa*lem artichoke (noun)
[Jerusalem by folk etymology from Italian girasole girasole]
First appeared 1641
: a perennial American sunflower (Helianthus tuberosus) widely cultivated
for its tubers that are used as a vegetable and as a livestock feed
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