[Sca-cooks] philosophical salad question
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
Thu Feb 22 15:28:57 PST 2007
> As for nasturtiums, i often include them in my salads. Edible flowers
> are sold at the redoubtable Berkeley Bowl. Among other available
> flowers are pinks/carnations (yeah, not the same thing but related)
> and johnny-jump-ups/good king henry/pansies.
Yeah, my question about nasturtiums was more about when they began to be
used in salads.
Pinks and pansies do seem to be documentable as food additions, along
with borage flowers.
But I've never seen johnny-jump-up called good king henry before-- could
that be a localism? The Good King Henry I know is Chenopodium
bonus-henricus, and surprisingly, at the moment wikipedia has a good
picture of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Henry
> The one question i'd have about raw salads is what is in season in
> the culture of the recipes of the feast. I'd think that in January in
> what is now Germany, fresh greens would be scarce, whereas, in
> southern Spain or what is now southern Italy there would be more
> available.
I'm thinking of doing a Preserving the Harvest class for pennsic which
will include info on the various ways of *extending* the harvest I've
found mentioned. I'd have to sit down with Hyll's Gardener's Labyrinth
and so forth, but I am pretty sure there are a number of greens that
overwinter and which were known in to be useable in winter; others could
be stored and/or brought into shelter (such as chicory).
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