In the latest episode FeralKevin cooks up a gourmet, slow food, and wild foraged edible. Others call it a weed. It’s the wild artichoke,– a giant, super tenacious plant that grows in the most marginal areas around here. Delicious! You can also subscribe to the podcast (Itunes), Miro, or RSS feeds by visiting http://feralkevin.blip.tv/.
FeralKevin Presents: Wild Artichoke Thistle, Cynara cardunculus
Jun 15th, 2009 by feralkevin
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Great video… I think I might have seen some of these in my neighborhood. I’m looking forward to trying them.
[...] Cynara cardunculus, or artichoke thistle, is the wild version of the commerical artichoke. But get this, they taste the same, and have delicious hearts, but they are armored with thistle spikes. Considering eating a whole artichoke down the heart is a slow food and fun ordeal already in our culinary traditions, then why should adding thorns be that big a difference? I want to say this about them, they are very sharp, but not once have they ever broken my skin. I wish I could say the same about pruning roses. [...]