Omelet > wrote:

> brooklyn1 > wrote:

>> Arugula (in the mustard family) is a cold weather crop, if grown in a
>> hot climate it will be bitter and foul smelling. To harvest pick the
>> young outter leaves, the older leaves will be tough and very peppery.
>> I doubt decent arugula can be grown where you live, it would need to
>> be shipped in and arugula has a very short shelf life.... up until
>> maybe ten years ago there was no commercial arugula, one had to go out
>> and forage for their own. Arugula is like radish, you either like it
>> or not.

>Makes sense... but the stuff that was on the salad bar this week was
>nasty.

Somebody, possibly Monsanto, figured out how to make mountains
of arugula commercially... at this point it's the European
national leafy vegetable, you cannot avoid it on the continent.

It definitely has a rubbery texture when it's grown past its prime.


Steve