[Sca-cooks] Mystery Vegetable

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Christina Nevin wrote:

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> Saluti All!
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> 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?


I can't find the reference source I used to have, which had a photo, but
it sounds like it might be something like a jerusalem artichoke, or
perhaps the tuber known in England as galingale or in French as souchet.
No relation to the Southeast Asian rhizome.


> 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.

Fun is a _good_ thing. So is disposable income ;  )

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