Ingredient Spotlight: Mashua
Mashua is a perennial plant that produces colorful flowers and a beautiful climbing vine that hummingbirds and gardeners love. Underneath the soil is an edible deliacy. The tuber of mashua was cult...
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Ingredient Spotlight: Oca
Every so often in a specialty shop or farmer's market, I see this strange tuber. It's smallish, waxy, and brightly-colored. It's called oca, and it's one of the lost crops of the Incas....
Strange New Vegetable: Yacon
Recently I was talking via email with a friend in Texas about her home garden, and she mentioned she had planted something called "yacon." I thought it was some sort of typo so I inquired, and she co...
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