Cooking with a Little-Known Wild Edible
The Local Food Report
English - May 12, 2020 19:17 - 4 minutes - 9.62 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFood Arts food cape cod cooking wcai farming wgbh Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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I first tasted milkweed a few years ago. I was at Ceraldi in Wellfleet—a restaurant known for its focus on hyper local ingredients— and I tried the plants’ shoots. They were bright and snappy and so gloriously green-tasting that I wanted to learn more. Co-owner and chef Michael Ceraldi explains what Asclepias syriaca, or Common Milkweed is.