Wintergarden
I was heartbroken. I assumed I was looking in the wrong markets and decided to branch out more. So I did. I searched and searched from market to market for what Google translate claims is, chou frisé. This translation only led me to savoy cabbage, which is most definitely not kale. I found my eyes darting from one produce stand to the next, hoping that the long, dark-green curly leaves would magically appear. I showed photos to farmers and distributors but the only response I would get was a shrug of the shoulders, shake of the head and the classic French, phffft.
Turns out, I was not the only Anglo expat missing the Queen of Greens. Questions, comments and discussions flooded blogs, cooking forums and message boards. And when I read on three different prominent Paris food blogs that kale was 99.99% of the time impossible to find and that most French people do not even know what it is, I knew it was true: the kale I prepared our last night in New York was definitely our last.
So as any 21st century girl would do, I turned to the Internet to research everything I could about “kale in Paris“.
relationship with the vegetable that
What is it about this one vegetable that means so much more to me than lettuce or broccoli? There are a few interesting facts about kale and my make my “healthy” obsession with it more sensible. 04 /1 2
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