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Green goddess: fresh-picked sorrel. Photo courtesy Good Eggs | SF. If you hadn’t read the headline or the caption, would you have been able to identify the leafy green in the photo? Growing wild in grassland habitats, sorrel has long been cultivated as a garden herb and leafy green vegetable. It’s a member of…
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Kumquats are the size of large olives. Photo courtesy White Flower Farm. How can it be that we’ve never published a piece about the kumquat? Today’s tip remedies that oversight. Native to China and now grown throughout Southeast Asia (plus the U.S. and elsewhere), the kumquat is a tiny citrus fruit that is entirely…
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As part of our Winter Vegetable Doldrums Series, today’s focus is the black radish*, Raphanus sativus niger. It’s a member of the anti-carcinogenic Brassica family of cruciferous† vegetables. Available year round, black radishes peak in winter and early spring. Significantly larger than traditional radishes, it average threes to four inches in diameter or length, and…
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