[Sca-cooks] More Artichoke/Cardoon

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

According to
http://gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov/book/chap6/artichoke.html

"Cardoon (Cynara cardunculus L.) is similar to artichoke except that 
it is spiny and more robust. It is cultivated, on a much smaller 
scale than artichoke, for its edible root and thickened leafstalk. 
The inflorescence and pollination relationships are similar to 
artichoke (Bailey 1949*)."

At a cooking workshop at Duke Cariadoc's some among us cooked cardoon 
leaves from His Grace's garden.

But if that quote is true, one eats the roots (and possibly the 
stalk), not the leaves...

Anyone with more experience care to comment?
-- 
Urtatim, formerly Anahita