Ginger is a powerful tuber that can be used as a medicine or zesty spice. There is a Chinese saying: “the older the ginger, the more it bites”. Peel the thin skin with a tip of a teaspoon.
Curly Chicory Endive
The wonderful Chicory Family includes an array of sophisticated flavors: red, white and curly endive, escarole, frisee, tardivo and radiccchio.
Red Ribbed Dandelion Greens
Dandelion in French means Tooth of the Lion, which describes its look, but also its bite. It is indeed related to the bright yellow flowers that forever bloom to children’s delight and gardener’s dismay. But unlike the weed, it has been carefully and organically cultivated.
All About…Turkish Bay Leaves
With a long history of culinary and medicinal uses, bay leaves are thought to have digestive properties and also act as an appetite stimulant. The Turkish bay leaf (Laurus nobilis) is generally preferred over its California cousin for its subtler, less mentholated taste, and it is also more healthful to consume. Bay leaves are used [...]
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Rutabaga: Queen of the Roots
Known as “Swedes” in the U.K. (from the old Swedish word rotabagge, meaning “root bag”), Rutabagas are the glamour girls of root vegetables. In addition to being better dressed, their flavor sharpness/sweetness levels put them between turnips and parsnips, shading toward turnips. Treat them exactly as you would turnips, but with more assurance. Or as [...]
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Fresh Bay Leaf
Priestesses at the Temple of Delphi would eat bay leaves to assist them in seeing the future. No guarantee that bay leaves will make you an oracle – but when you cook with them we predict your neighbors will want to come over for dinner.
Maitake Mushroom
Maitake is a large lacy Japanese mushroom that is cultivated here in the U.S. Its extraction has been scientifically examined for its great effects on boosting the immune system and fighting tumors. In culinary preparations, the whole Maitake can be used and should be enjoyed cooked – in soups, sautés or afloat in a béchamel [...]
Fava Beans
Go ahead, say it: “fa-fa fava beans and a nice chianti.” Now that that’s out of the way you can enjoy one of the most nutritious legumes. May we suggest steamed, served with olive oil, salt, and lemon, and some civil company. For information on how to prepare your Fava Beans, check out our fava bean [...]
Asparagus
Asparagus comes from the Greek aspharagos, meaning “sprout.” And who better to follow through the springtime greenery than Persephone, the Greek goddess of spring.
Sugar Cane
A true raw experience. You can’t get more back to basics then sugar cane. Experience the unrefined taste of sugar. Peel and cut slices to drop in your tea as the colonials did or peel back and chomp in it for some of nature’s candy.
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