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a vegetable so ugly it had to develop a personality, and did
means Celeriac is a knobbly, gnarled root vegetable—a variety of celery grown for its swollen base rather than its stalks—with a flavor like celery crossed with parsley and nuts.
from The name is simply "celery" with the suffix "-ac" tacked on, a 19th-century English coinage. "Celery" itself traveled from French "céleri", which came from an Italian dialect word "selleri", ultimately from Greek "selinon", the ancient word for the parsley family that gave its name to the lush island of Selinunte in Sicily—so this lumpy root carries, very distantly, the perfume of Greek wild celery.
- secret identity
- It's a celery cultivar grown for its swollen root
- flavor flex
- Tastes like celery and parsley had a smoother child
- keeps forever
- Stores for months without complaint in cool cellars
- low effort glow
- Mash, roast, or eat raw shredded as remoulade
- old world cred
- Documented in Mediterranean cooking since ancient Greek and Roman times