[Sca-cooks] Cardoons vs. artichokes

[Bill Fisher]

I believe the bracts would be the buds.

Cadoc


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:43:04 -0500, Stefan li Rous
<stefanlirous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> 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"?
> 
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