the.com/swiss chard
Spinach that went to art school and never stopped reminding you.
means A leafy vegetable with crinkly dark-green leaves and thick, often brightly colored stalks, related to the beet, grown for its tasty leaves rather than its root.
from Named for Switzerland, though the plant itself has little to do with the Alps — the 'Swiss' label was tacked on by 19th-century seed catalogers to distinguish it from French spinach varieties they were competing with. 'Chard' comes from French 'carde,' tracing back to Latin 'carduus,' meaning thistle or artichoke stalk — a nod to the plant's prominent, edible ribs. So the name is really a marketing accident wearing a passport it never earned.
- not swiss
- named by a 19th century swiss botanist, not switzerland
- same plant
- beet grown for leaves instead of root
- stem vs leaf
- stalks cook like celery, leaves wilt like spinach
- color trick
- rainbow stems are dye-free, just different pigments