mache lettuce
English translation: Valerianella locusta (mache)
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| 5 | Valerianelle |
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peer agreement (net): +1No history, but Explanation: mache A salad green native to Europe with narrow dark green leaves and a tangy, nutlike flavor. It can also be steamed and served as a vegetable. It is also called field salad, field lettuce, lamb's lettuce, and corn salad (though unrelated to corn). http://www.online-cookbook.com/goto/cook?p=glossaryl&st=i Mache - A wild lettuce with small round leaves that may be used for salads or cooked and used as you would spinach. The taste is a little less pronounced than spinach. Mache grows wild, and can be found in the fall. It is cultivated in France, Italy, and the US from September to April. http://www.pheast.com/glossary/cooking_glossary_m.html |
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Valerianelle Explanation: it is a very old salad used in Roman times already belonging to the family of the Valerian. but I was unable to find a website referring to it. Maybe you should check up the following websites Reference: http://www.hungrymonster.com/FoodFacts/Food_Facts.cfm?Phrase... Reference: http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1370492.ht... |
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peer agreement (net): +10mache Explanation: Mache Cornsalad, Lamb's tongue (Valerianella locusta) Mache is its French name. In English it is called cornsalad or lamb's tongue. Mache is at once one of the most delicate salad greens, and one of the most cold hardy. It can survive the snow. The greens grow from a mass of fibrous roots. Mache crows as a weed in corn fields in the eastern United States, and in northern Europe, hence the English common name, cornsalad. Mache is grown for the market in Europe, especially in France The cultivar, 'Grosse Graine', is a larger plant with larger seeds; 'Coguille de Louviers' has spoon-shaped leaves and an excellent flavor; 'Verte de Cambrai', the most common cultivar in France and Germany, is very cold tolerant but takes longer to reach full size; 'Verte d' Etampes' has savoyed leaves; 'Broad Leaved' is more heat tolerant and the most common variety in the US. Location Wild corn salad is native to Europe, northern Africa and western Asia. It is a common weed in waste places and cultivated ground (especially corn fields!) in much of Europe and Asia. In North America, corn salad has escaped cultivation and become naturalized from Maine, south to Virginia and Arkansas. On the European continent, improved cultivars are widely grown as cool season salad plants. A similar, slightly larger species that is more heat tolerant and has a slightly bitter flavor, V. eriocarpa, is cultivated in Italy. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs 57 mins (2004-03-05 20:59:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- very tasty see photo (and french recipes) http://www.saveurs.sympatico.ca/ency_3/laitue/mache/salade.h... Reference: http://www.williamrubel.com/Trescony/mache.html Reference: http://www.floridata.com/ref/V/vale_loc.cfm |
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