[Sca-cooks] Mystery Vegetable

[Christina Nevin]

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Saluti All!

At the Farmers' Market on Saturday I bought a mystery vegetable - it's
white, about finger length and width, and looks like lots of little bulbs
squashed onto each other. It breaks crisply, like a bulb or yam, and is
translucent and wet inside. It has a delicate, vaguely nutty taste raw.

The guy at the stall said he thought it might be Japanese artichoke. Never
heard of it myself, and my Eastern foods encyclopedia had nothing similar.

So, does anyone know what it is? And how do you cook it?

Other than that, I had real fun at the market, got some wonderful French
verjus and truffle oil, some pied bleus, chantarelle & black trumpet
mushrooms. And some wild boar pancetta which should be interesting.

Ciao
Lucrezia

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