Strong like Popeye
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We can’t help but remember the joy of watching Popeye the Sailor series with his famous “I’m strong to the “finich”, ’cause I eats me spinach” line. In the cartoon, in …
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Apple with a hint of onion: Kohlrabi
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Kohlrabi is also known as German turnip but if you take its direct meaning it’s cabbage turnip from the German, sort of wild cabbage with a sturdy stem that resembles that …
The blossom of the chives
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Chives are beautiful representatives of alliums – the genus that also includes the well-known and loved-by-many-people common onions, garlic, leek, shallots, scallions. The latter looks almost like chives, tastes almost like …
Queen of the fields
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That’s how one of the most widely grown food plants in the world is called. Corn, once a cultivar native to Central America, is grown today on every continent of the …
The unjustly forgotten vegetable
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Parsnips are hardly ever counted as a sought after ingredient. But they should. This root vegetable was so much esteemed in the past that it was once used as a part of the tribute paid to Rome.
Culinary cabbage
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These vegetables are so ubiquitous and common that you might even not know that they are called cruciferous. They take its name from the shape of their flowers whose petals resemble …
