Posted in Food, tagged 3 guys from brooklyn, bay ridge, brooklyn, brooklyn greengrocer, cardone, cardoon, photography, unusual vegetables on January 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The growers in California would like you to know that this humble-looking vegetable is related to the artichoke. Cardone (or cardoon) is eaten in France and Italy, where it’s cut into pieces and boiled or fried. At Three Guys from Brooklyn, no one was touching the stuff.
Posted in Food, tagged 3 guys from brooklyn, brooklyn, fruit store, ft hamilton pkwy, peaches, photography, strange fruit on July 30, 2009| 1 Comment »
Some places, these are called UFO or saturn peaches. They’ve been around for hundreds of years in China, but only became popular over the last decade in the US. White-fleshed and with a delicate flavor, consumers are willing to pay more for these novel, flattened fruits.
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