Topic: vegan cooking

Raw kohlrabi—a small, purple- or green-skinned member of cabbage family also known as the ‘German Turnip’—is crisp like an apple and tastes something like a cross between cabbage and radish. I encountered this strange vegetable (which, without leaves, resembles a sort of rubber-shelled alien tomato) at my local farmer’s market last Tuesday (it can grow almost anywhere) and, tempted by its weirdness and 50-cent price tag, took two home with me, instructed by the seller to ‘bake it like a potato.’ More »