Mon, Nov-25-19, 17:36
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Originally Posted by Molly B
I feel like a dumb southerner, but I have never seen the root of a bunch of celery. Is it like a turnip? Is it starchy? Our celery comes with no root, but pre-bagged, and sometimes no bag, but never with a root. And I've lived in the south all of my life.... guess I'll have to google it.
The thing is, I don't really like celery too much. I mean, I like it fine diced up small and put into chicken salad and potato salad, (in the past, hahah). But to eat a piece of raw celery, blechkkk! And to put pb on it? NO WAY!! LMAO! To me, that's as weird as, say, putting blueberry jam on fresh red radishes! ;-P
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Celery root is a knobby, ugly looking thing; I kind of wonder what the food situation was for the first one who tried to eat it; pretty dire I should think. Kind of like the first person to have a go at an artichoke It is the same plant as the stalk celery you are familiar with, but bred for an enlarged root instead of long juicy stalks. Like broccoli & cauliflower are the same plant, but bred over time for different characteristics. You might like the root as the flavor isn't so strong, and the texture is completely different. On the other hand, if you're not that fond of celery to begin with there's really no reason to go hunting for this. There are lots of other potato substitutes in the produce section. Also, this is very definitely a part of the northern European eating profile; I had never heard of it either, growing up in California. Could be it just hasn't traveled far enough south for you to have run across it.
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