vegetable completist

[Benjamin Barrett]

New for me, too. For namul, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namul

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA

On Apr 14, 2012, at 7:42 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> This is a new one for me--and I thought I was pretty much up on foodie
> terminology.
> 
> http://goo.gl/33wor
>> Vegetable completists who devour every edible part of the plant, from
>> beet green to garlic scape, will relish the sweet-potato leaf, a
>> late-summer harbinger of the iconic Thanksgiving tuber. Although
>> widely consumed in West Africa, Malaysia, and the Philippines, the
>> heart-shaped leaves are rarer here. But now that Greenmarket farms
>> like Bodhitree have added them to their repertoires, you might be
>> seeing more of them: with coconut sambal at Simpson Wong‚s eponymous
>> Wong, perhaps, or blanched and simply seasoned, as in this recipe from
>> Takashi chef-owner Takashi Inoue, who often features them on his namul
>> plate of assorted vegetables.
> 
> Two bonuses--sweet-potato leaf and "namul". Namul seems to be nothing
> more than a kind of blanched greens "salad"--somewhat like the Japanese
> treatment of spinach (oshitashi -- http://goo.gl/42HZF ).

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