Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:

>Cardoon and artichoke are in the thistle family... the edible portion
>of cardoon does look like celery but before it's trimmed it looks like
>thistle as does artichoke.

Fancy Yuppite Restaurants will serve part of the thistle section...
most typically I've seen them sliced longitudinally so that a given
piece of cardoon on your plate has some of the stalk, some of the
(miniscule) cardoon heart, and a pointy leaf or two.

Steve