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a forgotten sweet root that fed kings before the potato stole its throne.
means A sweet, cream-coloured root vegetable (Sium sisarum) grown in clusters of fingerlike tubers, once a popular cultivated crop and now largely forgotten.
from From Middle English skirwit, an alteration of an earlier form related to Old French eschervis and ultimately Medieval Latin sources for the plant; the second part was likely reshaped by association with English 'wort' (a plant or herb). The shifting spellings over the centuries show a name nobody quite agreed on, drifting toward the tidy 'skirret' we have now.
- royal favorite
- Reportedly a beloved vegetable of Emperor Tiberius
- sweet roots
- Sugary white tubers that grow in clustered fingers
- old name
- Once called crummock in medieval England
- potato victim
- Largely abandoned after potatoes conquered European gardens
- comeback kid
- Perennial heirloom now revived by forage-curious growers