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the vegetable so watery your body burns calories politely declining it
means A long-stalked, pale-green vegetable with a crisp, stringy texture and a fresh, faintly bitter taste, eaten raw or cooked.
from From French 'céleri,' borrowed in the 1600s from an Italian dialect word 'selleri,' which traces back through Latin 'selinon' to the Greek 'selinon,' a name the ancient Greeks used for parsley and its relatives — wild celery once grew around the Mediterranean as a pungent herb long before anyone bred it into the mild, juicy stalks we crunch today.
- calorie myth
- Doesn't actually cost more energy to chew than it provides
- mostly water
- Roughly 95% water by weight
- ancient prize
- Greeks crowned athletic victors with celery wreaths
- crunch chemistry
- That snap comes from pressurized water in rigid cells
- divisive taste
- Some people genetically perceive it as bitter soap
pascal celery — variety developed in france, accounts for majority of commercial celery grown in north america
utah celery — heirloom variety from 1940s, still widely cultivated in california's salinas valley
golden celery — blanched variety popular in 1800s-early 1900s, featured in victorian cooking