While visiting Puglia in the spring of 2010, Muscari comusum bulbs were featured in dishes we ate at restaurants. I also purchased a jar of pickled bulbs at a farmstand. The entire time I was eating them, I assumed they were onions with an unusual flavor. It wasn't until learning more about the regional foods of Puglia that I realized they were in fact Muscari bulbs. Jim On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 2:44 AM Nils Hasenbein via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > Last year when removing a bunch that had sprouted up amongst the equally > > colonizing Muscari in the vegetable patch,I added washed Daslook bulbs > to a > > vegetable ferment I was making. > > Your mention of muscari reminds me that I repeatedly read about Muscari > comosum being edible, and both the german and the english Wikipedia > report that it's a delicacy in Greece and especially on Crete. Does > anybody have any experience eating them? The other Muscari seem to be > bland to mildy toxic/irritating. > > A word on Helianthus tuberosus, Jerusalem artichoke: It is commonly sold > in Germany in Whole Food (so called "Bio")Markets. Most people I know > who tried it had severy stomach problems afterwards, due to the high > inulin content. It is said you can adapt to that, and the taste is > actually quite nice. They come in many sizes and some colors and are > actually nice cutflowers (to me), but they are very, very aggressive > spreaders, regenerating exteremely quickly and hiding quite deep in the > soil. It took me several years to remove them completely from a patch > where i planted just a single tuber. Several friends grow them in > remote, sunny, rich patches of the garden, more for the late summer > flower display than for food. But I guess when you have no problems > eating it, it is a very productive vegetable. There is also a spirit > distilled from it in Germany (as from basically any starchy root...), > called "Topinambur" (same as the plant'c common name), or "Rossler". > > Nils > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>