[Sca-cooks] Cardoons vs. artichokes

[Ron Carnegie]

Along the same lines, I can show anyone in the Tidewater Virginia cardoons
growing.  Sometimes we have artichokes as well.  Have to wait until the
right season though.



Cheers,
Ranald

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces+r.carnegie=verizon.net at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+r.carnegie=verizon.net at ansteorra.org]On Behalf
> Of David Friedman
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 4:36 PM
> To: Christiane; Cooks within the SCA
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cardoons vs. artichokes
>
>
> >
> >What's really confusing for me is that my Sicilian grandmother
> >interchangeably used "artichoke" and "cardoon" to refer to the
> >globe-style vegetable we are familiar with. But with cardoons, you
> >eat the stems, not the bracts.
> >
> >Gianotta
>
> The cardoon plant looks like an artichoke on steroids--similar
> configuration, but a bigger and more vigorous plant. It has flower
> buds that are miniatures of the usual globe artichoke. You can cook
> them and eat them like artichokes--my kids thought they were cute
> when we did so--but there isn't much on them other than the heart. So
> it isn't surprising to have the same word used for both--to think of
> them as two variants of the same basic plant.
>
> Anyone in the SF bay area who is interested is welcome to come by
> here next spring--I have both cardoons and artichokes growing.
> --
> David/Cariadoc
> www.daviddfriedman.com
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