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Stay-at-home vegetables (Or fruit. Or spices. Or herbs.)
By: Alharacas Date: December 8, 2018, 6:19 am
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Have you ever discovered that some ingredient really common in
your country is so unavailable/unknown in another country there
isn't even a name for it?
Mind you, I'm not talking about regional dishes like Scottish
Haggis or German Leberkäse here. I mean the humble (and quite
inoffensive) Kohlrabi, for example.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, please have a look at
the German wikipedia page
HTML https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi#Kulturgeschichte
as they've chosen a very unflattering picture of poor Kohlrabi
for the English version
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi
Has anybody outside Germany and Switzerland ever set eyes on
this vegetable? If so, what's it called where you live?
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Re: Stay-at-home vegetables (Or fruit. Or spices. Or herbs.)
By: Aliph Date: December 8, 2018, 7:47 am
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That made me curious. Of course I never saw any Kohlrabi on an
italian table, even if I use them to make Minestrone (a
delicious italian soup of different winter vegetables)
However a quick search on the net told me that in Italian it is
called Sedano Raps or Sedano di Verona
HTML https://creandoidee.com/2018/04/08/il-sedano-di-verona-o-sedano-rapa/
If you look on Wikipedia in French, they tell you that the
Choux-rave isn’t fashionable anymore in today’s France because
it reminds people of WW2 but that in Canada people like it.
„En revanche, au Canada, on le retrouve couramment dans les
épiceries. On lui prête des vertus aphrodisiaques.„
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Re: Stay-at-home vegetables (Or fruit. Or spices. Or herbs.)
By: Nikola Date: December 8, 2018, 8:00 am
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It's quite common here. We call it kedlubna. But you're right,
people in the UK weren't sure what it was, even after I told
them the English name.
Here's another one: celeriac.
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Re: Stay-at-home vegetables (Or fruit. Or spices. Or herbs.)
By: Alharacas Date: December 8, 2018, 8:24 am
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Celeriac? The big, round, white ball? You mean, they don't have
that in England?
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Re: Stay-at-home vegetables (Or fruit. Or spices. Or herbs.)
By: Allie Date: December 8, 2018, 8:33 am
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I saw Kuhlrabi many times while studying German, but never saw
one in person and have no idea of how it tastes.
The things I struggle to find are mandioquinha (no equivalent in
English), mandioca (cassava) and palmito (heart of palm)
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Re: Stay-at-home vegetables (Or fruit. Or spices. Or herbs.)
By: Alharacas Date: December 8, 2018, 10:00 am
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Mandioquinha = Arakacha in German. Never seen it, never tasted
it, never even heard of it.
Mandioca = Maniok in German, I've read about this, but only have
very hazy idea of what it is and how it's eaten.
Palmito - finally something I can relate to! Yes, they taste
delicious. Do they tast differently when you eat them fresh?
I've only ever bought canned Palmherzen. I'd have them more
often if a) I hadn't been told that to obtain them, you need to
kill the palm tree, and b) if they weren't so expensive (between
10 and 20 Euros per kg)
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Re: Stay-at-home vegetables (Or fruit. Or spices. Or herbs.)
By: Sudeep Date: December 9, 2018, 1:51 am
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[quote author=Alharacas link=topic=672.msg10029#msg10029
date=1544271557]
Have you ever discovered that some ingredient really common in
your country is so unavailable/unknown in another country there
isn't even a name for it?
Mind you, I'm not talking about regional dishes like Scottish
Haggis or German Leberkäse here. I mean the humble (and quite
inoffensive) Kohlrabi, for example.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, please have a look at
the German wikipedia page
HTML https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi#Kulturgeschichte
as they've chosen a very unflattering picture of poor Kohlrabi
for the English version
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi
Has anybody outside Germany and Switzerland ever set eyes on
this vegetable? If so, what's it called where you live?
[/quote]
We have it here in India. But I don't think people eat them
quite often, not at least in my state. But I had it once or
twice but I ate it raw and the taste was good. We call it "Ganth
Gobi". "Ganth" means knot and "Gobi" is cabbage.
[quote author=Alharacas link=topic=672.msg10036#msg10036
date=1544284850]
Mandioquinha = Arakacha in German. Never seen it, never tasted
it, never even heard of it.
Mandioca = Maniok in German, I've read about this, but only have
very hazy idea of what it is and how it's eaten.
Palmito - finally something I can relate to! Yes, they taste
delicious. Do they tast differently when you eat them fresh?
I've only ever bought canned Palmherzen. I'd have them more
often if a) I hadn't been told that to obtain them, you need to
kill the palm tree, and b) if they weren't so expensive (between
10 and 20 Euros per kg)
[/quote]
All look familiar to me, but I don't think I know their proper
name in Hindi or Odia. Mandioquinha looks like turnip but it's
not, so it is like another vegetable that we call here "Palua",
looks like this
HTML https://brddas.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/img_20171023_204348_11440363893.jpg
Mandioca, what google told me, is cassava. It is quite used by
Africans so far I know. They use the flour of cassava to make
bread.
About Palmito, I think I have tried it. It can be extracted from
palm tree as well as from date tree. I have tried the one
extracted from the date tree.
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Re: Stay-at-home vegetables (Or fruit. Or spices. Or herbs.)
By: Nikola Date: December 9, 2018, 3:36 am
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Celeriac is not sold in supermarkets in the UK, only in some
smaller greengrocers that sell lesser-known vegetables. Most
people don't know it or wouldn't know what to do with it.
I've tried manioc and liked it. I recall singing "she's a
manioc, manioc on the floor" but that could have been the
margaritas I had with it. My friend who imports food from
Bolivia and keeps raving about palmito, I need to get him to
bring me some. I don't think I've ever tried mandioquinha.
Does anyone eat chicory?
HTML https://www.abelandcole.co.uk/chicory-250g
It's something that came here after the revolution and our
family fell in love with it immediately.
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Re: Stay-at-home vegetables (Or fruit. Or spices. Or herbs.)
By: Alharacas Date: December 9, 2018, 4:11 am
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Chicory - of course! Belgium's signature vegetable. It's
Chicoree /shíkoreh/ in German.
Either braised in butter, or as a salad - my mother demands
Thousand Island dressing for chicory salad. How do you prepare
it, Nikola?
I'm sure nobody gives a ****, but I've always found it
fascinating that chicory is actually the "tame" version of
common chicory, those spindly weeds decorating rural roadsides
and paths with their cheerful little sky-blue flowers
(horseweed?).
Originally, it was cultivated in order to make a substitute for
coffee from the roots - Ersatzkaffee, Zichorienkaffee - until
they discovered you could also eat the shoots. Or so says
wikipedia:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory
Has anyone ever tried what they call "grelos" in Galicia?
Apparently, they're also eaten in Italy, where they're called
r-a-p-e, rapini or friarielli, and wikipedia says they're
marketed in the US as brokkoli raab:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapini
They even have a German name, Rübstiel, but in all my life I've
never seen them, heard of them or had them anywhere in Germany.
In Galicia, they're everywhere. When you see people squatting in
ankle- to knee-high greenery, mushroom-like under umbrellas, in
the pouring rain, you'll know they're gathering grelos.
Edited because the wonderful programme replaced one of the
Italian names of "grelos" with ****. WTF? What is this? The
crime that dare not speak its name?
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Re: Stay-at-home vegetables (Or fruit. Or spices. Or herbs.)
By: NealC Date: December 9, 2018, 5:03 am
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We call chicory "endive" here. I know Kohlrabi, we grow it and
broccoli-raab as cold weather vegetables. Endive is really
bitter, I am not a fan. I have never eaten kohlrabi, it does
look interesting. Broccoli-raab is a big favorite here with
Italian-Americans, we grow quite a bit of it. It is a huge
plant in the garden.
We actually grow these plants under a thin white blanket that
allows maximum sunlight through while offering wind and frost
protection. Even more than that, in the spring the blanket
protects the plants from a type of fly that lays eggs by the
roots. One day you have a beautiful crop of broccoli or
cabbage, the next day everything is wilted. You go out to see
what is wrong and you find the beautiful plants have no roots -
the roots have all been eaten by a wriggling mass of maggots!
Exceedingly disgusting - of all insects I hate them the most.
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