[Sca-cooks] Red Tower Cooking contest

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 10:06 PM 5/9/2005, you wrote:
>Terrain suggested:
>>Here is an Ingredient: Fiddle heads, they should be in season for the
>>event.
>>But they might be expensive in your next for the woods! I'm a New
>>Englander.
>
>Huh? What are "Fiddle heads"? I assume these are different from "fish 
>heads", but I guess the latter could be considered unusual. Are these a 
>vegetable usually found growing wild?

They're a kind of fern, picked immature before they unfurl- they look like 
the top of a violin, which is why the name. They're sort of like asparagus, 
best lightly steamed or sauteed. But I thought they were New World?

'Lainie
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