http://onepeppercorn.com/2010/03/kale/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:58:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://onepeppercorn.com/2010/03/kale/comment-page-1/#comment-336 Sam Kelly Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:29:02 +0000 http://onepeppercorn.com/?p=501#comment-336 Relatedly - I was looking through Alexis Soyer's <em>Shilling Cookery for the People</em> recently, and found him talking about a <a href="http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2009/05/take-one-thousand-beans.html" rel="nofollow">plant called the thousand-heads</a>, used exclusively to feed sheep during the lambing season (no wonder, with that much iron in), but which he found to be extremely tasty with bacon. Clearly, in Yorkshire in the 1860s, they didn't use the term "kale" at all, or at least didn't tell him about it. Relatedly – I was looking through Alexis Soyer’s Shilling Cookery for the People recently, and found him talking about a plant called the thousand-heads, used exclusively to feed sheep during the lambing season (no wonder, with that much iron in), but which he found to be extremely tasty with bacon. Clearly, in Yorkshire in the 1860s, they didn’t use the term “kale” at all, or at least didn’t tell him about it.

]]> http://onepeppercorn.com/2010/03/kale/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Alison Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:22:35 +0000 http://onepeppercorn.com/?p=501#comment-333 That's so funny, I was wondering about where the word kale came from last week! Thanks for answering! That’s so funny, I was wondering about where the word kale came from last week! Thanks for answering!

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