Broccoli Rabe

[Duane Campbell]

Here we go.

The Cooks Garden by Shepherd Ogden says:

"A member of the mustard family that is often mistaken for broccoli is
spring raab, or rapini. It is not really a broccoli at all, but was
selected from turnips for its shoots and flowers.

Gourmet Gardening from Organic Gardening (under Brassica campestris)

"This variously-spelled vegetable is well known to Americans of Italian
stock ...  this tender shoot of the wintered-over turnip is as welcome
sight in early April, when it parts the soil as one of the first greens
of the new gardening year. Also called turnip broccoli, which is almost a
direct translation of the Italian phrase broccolini di rapa ..."

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