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

Posted by admin to Cabbage, Italy, John Scheepers Inc., Joy, Northern Ireland, Savoy, The, of on 2007-11-07, 21:00:00

For the life of me, I can't figure it out. The produce bins aren't piled high with Savoy cabbage, even though this is the perfect time of year to enjoy it. Granted, it has a more delicate leaf and therefore does not keep or ship as well as hard-head types. But then, neither does lettuce. My friend Pauline, a transplant from Northern Ireland, is peeved by the lack of Savoy cabbage in her adopted home. Her mother would come home and announce grandly, "I've bought us a nice Savoy," as if it were a bag of gold nuggets. "Why can't I buy one here?" Pauline wails.

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

Posted by admin to An, Element, Italy, Salad, Surprise, United States, Your, for, of on 2007-09-26, 20:00:00

My delight in growing odd edibles has led me down some strange roads, at times wild and exotic, at other times so homely I feel almost foolish to have trod them. This year's experiment with a leafy green named sculpit (also called scuplit or sclopit) was a case of the latter.