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the squash too lazy to grow a peelable skin, and too delicious to care
means A small, oblong winter squash with creamy-and-green striped skin so thin you can eat it without peeling, prized for its sweet, almost potato-like flesh.
from Straight from the Italian 'delicata,' the feminine form of 'delicato' — 'delicate, fine, tender' — itself descended from Latin 'delicatus,' meaning 'giving pleasure, dainty, luxurious.' The name nods to that famously thin, tender skin and the gentle sweetness within.
- edible skin
- thin enough to eat, no peeling required
- aka
- called the sweet potato squash
- short shelf
- won't store for months like winter squash
- heirloom roots
- dates to the 1890s seed catalogs
- flavor
- tastes of corn, sweet potato, and butter
for instance
delicata squash — winter squash variety with edible skin, native to central america, sweet orange flesh
italian delicata grape — white wine grape from northern italy producing delicate, light wines