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Prickly about having to eat your vegetables? Might as well start with the thistle family – and a vegetable that really looks more like a flower. Artichokes (Cynara Scolymus<\/em>) are one of the oldest foods around, originating in Africa and later around the Mediterranean. Greek legend has it that Zeus took to a beautiful mortal named Cynara, and transformed her into a Goddess. She longed to return home to our world and when she managed to sneak away she contracted his wrath: he turned her into an artichoke.<\/p>\n

Early cultivation happened in North Africa in\u00a0800 A.D., and the Saracens introduced artichokes to Italy. The Arabic\u00a0al-qarshuf<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 meaning “thistle” \u2014 became\u00a0articiocco<\/em>\u00a0in Italian and eventually “artichoke” in English.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0234\"There was the mobster\u00a0“Artichoke King”,\u00a0so called because he dominated the produce rackets in NY. Some nifty historical photography here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iYh8iWZeIDY<\/a><\/p>\n

And of course we have an “Artichoke Queen” – the first, in 1948, no other than\u00a0Marilyn Monroe (and I will remain silent on the rumors about aphrodisiacal effects of the plant.)\u00a0http:\/\/montereypeninsula.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/marilyn-monroe-artichoke-queen.html<\/a>. Personally I think trying to get food out of those leaves is just an excuse to eat a lot of butter.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_0092\"Not the opinion of a former president’s wife, ruling the kitchen at Mount Vernon, however:<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Martha Washington\u2019s Booke of Cookery<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

To Make an Harty Choak Pie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take 12 harty choak bottoms yt are good & large, after you have boyled them, take them cleere from ye leaves & cores, season them with a little pepper & salt & lay them on a coffin of paste, with a pound of butter & ye marrow of 2 bones in bigg pieces, then close it up to set in ye oven, then put halfe a pound of sugar to halfe a pinte of verges [a sauce made with green herbs] & some powder of cinnamon and ginger \u2013 boyle these together & when ye pie is halfe baked put the liquor in & set it in ye oven againe till it be quite bak\u2019d.<\/p>\n

Here are two Dutch painters on the subject, 17th century Clara Peeters of Harlem (Breakfast Still Life) and contemporary Roman Reisinger (2006)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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