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the onion's polite cousin who shows up only after the cooking is done
means A slender, hollow-leaved herb from the onion family, snipped fresh and sprinkled over food for a mild, grassy onion flavor.
from From Old French 'cive,' itself from Latin 'cepa,' meaning onion — the same root that quietly underpins 'chibol' and the 'cipoll' lurking inside 'scallion.' So the chive carries the onion's family name in its very spelling, a botanical relative announcing itself in Latin even as it behaves far more delicately on the plate.
- botany
- smallest cultivated member of the onion family
- edible flowers
- purple blooms taste like mild onion too
- heat hater
- flavor vanishes if cooked, so added last
- pollinator magnet
- bees adore the spherical lavender blossoms
- ancient use
- grown in China over four thousand years
for instance
allium schoenoprasum — the only species of chive commonly cultivated worldwide for culinary use since ancient times
garlic chives — allium tuberosum, grown across asia with stronger garlic flavor than common chives