"kohlrabi" news and stories

It's not exactly a turnip, not exactly a cabbage, but kohlrabi is a fellow member of the Brassica family. Its taste resembles both its siblings while being a little more sweet than either. Blogger sassyradish has created this salad by cutting the kohlrabi into matchsticks, and mixing it with Gala apples, for a mega-crunch factor. She puts an Asian spin on the salad with hot Thai bird's-eye chiles and a bit of fish sauce (cilantro and cumin also add flavor to the mix). (Get her recipe here.)

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• Free Press writers share "odes to ugly vegetables." First up, the vegetable most often fed to dogs under the table -- Brussels sprouts.
• Next ode: kohlrabi -- the sweet cousin of the cabbage family that is yet to be popularized in this country.
• A tribute to the "alien soccer ball" that is celery root.
• Consider high-end liquors as gifts this holiday season. No Black Friday crowds, and it is so much better than a hand-knit sweater.
• Vermont Smoke and Cure produces nitrate-free bacon that was described by the New York Times as having "... possibly the finest (bacon) on the planet."