ISSUE 74, THE BOOK OF RARER VEGETABLES, Part 6: Skirret
davidsanfordshields.substack.com
Skirret When presented a new root vegetable, wise cooks both boil and bake the tuber to see which preparation best showcases its intrinsic virtues. Sometimes those virtues are modest. A forkful of parboiled Skirret convinced me that any plant that aspired to have the taste and texture of a salsify, yet failed by getting confused with an overcooked carrot, would not be a keystone vegetable in any culinary growing scheme going forward, even though it was a perennial plant. Skirret (
ISSUE 74, THE BOOK OF RARER VEGETABLES, Part 6: Skirret
ISSUE 74, THE BOOK OF RARER VEGETABLES, Part…
ISSUE 74, THE BOOK OF RARER VEGETABLES, Part 6: Skirret
Skirret When presented a new root vegetable, wise cooks both boil and bake the tuber to see which preparation best showcases its intrinsic virtues. Sometimes those virtues are modest. A forkful of parboiled Skirret convinced me that any plant that aspired to have the taste and texture of a salsify, yet failed by getting confused with an overcooked carrot, would not be a keystone vegetable in any culinary growing scheme going forward, even though it was a perennial plant. Skirret (