[Sca-cooks] Cardoons vs. artichokes

[Stefan li Rous]

Gisnotta mentioned:
> 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.
Huh? What are part of the plant are the "bracts"?

Stefan
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