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Take a Fresh Look at a Clever Little Vegetable

By Jacki Lyden
Published October 8, 2006 at 8:33 AM HST
'The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market Cookbook' takes advantage of in-season ingredients to make fresh meals.
'The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market Cookbook' takes advantage of in-season ingredients to make fresh meals.

Cross an artichoke with celery, and you come close to getting a cardoon. For our food moment this week, food writer Peggy Knickerbocker tells us about cardoons, a wonderfully weird vegetable with mediterranean "roots."

Knickerbocker joined Christopher Hirsheimer in writing The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market Cookbook.

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Jacki Lyden
Longtime listeners recognize Jacki Lyden's voice from her frequent work as a substitute host on NPR. As a journalist who has been with NPR since 1979, Lyden regards herself first and foremost as a storyteller and looks for the distinctive human voice in a huge range of national and international stories.
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