On 5/9/2013 7:36 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2013-05-09, ImStillMags > wrote:
>
>> When the high end chefs started using them they became "trendy".
>
> All because of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs.
>
> The two expensive veggies that irk me are fennel and Belgian endive.
> My late brother's girlfriend was a native Belgian and she was outraged
> at the price of B-endive in the US, which typically sells for close to
> $5 lb. She said it was about $.45 lb in Belgium. She showed me a
> classic Belgian dish of endive wrapped in ham strips and
> smothered/cooked in a comté cheese béchemel sauce. Likewise with
> fennel. You'd think the damn root was saffron from the price.
> grrrrrr.....
>
> Oh, another is rapini, or broccoli rabé, if you can even find it.
> You'd think it was white asparagus instead of the weed it actually
> is.
>

Yes, endive and fennel are expensive but I don't like them enough to be
tempted, nor do I even remember what they cost.


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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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