(Via washingtonpost.com - A Cook's Garden by Barbara Damrosch)

Posted by admin to A Hot, Cold, Crop on 2006-06-14, 20:00:00

I call them the Cinderella vegetables -- so earthy and ordinary only a vegetarian will eat them. That is, until a cook with a deft hand resurrects them and prepares them with love. Suddenly they are chic. It happened to celery root, it happened to rhubarb, and it could happen to rutabaga.