Jerusalem artichokes / Sunchokes history

Pataca History

Jerusalem artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus scientific name, is the tuber of a variety of perennial flowers aster family. The flowers look like small yellow sunflowers. It is also marketed as Jerusalem artichokes, are very similar to these little knobby tubers ginger root. Perhaps the most important cause of crop plants in North America, the tubers a texture with the recommended potato as a potato substitute for diabetics often have.

Sir Walter Raleigh Native Americans maintain Sunroots in present-day Virginia in 1585. Pataca When he arrived in Europe in early 1600 by Samuel de Champlain, who was known as "Canada" or potato "French". The French, who call Jerusalem artichokes (by the way is also a term for a person who is used impolite without education), with the improvement of the tubers and Jerusalem artichokes grow on a larger scale credited.

For many years, the Jerusalem artichoke has prevented by illness because of the history of ancient leprosy link easily deformed due to the similarity of the shape of the fingers tubers. During World War II, artichokes and beets in Jerusalem are the most popular vegetables, giving them the reputation of the poor conditioning.

About 200 varieties are now available. Won not only in many commercial products such as fructose source of products, but also alcohol. Jerusalem Artichoke is widely cultivated in Europe and America.

What's in a name?

If this is not an artichoke and not Jerusalem, I wonder where in the world has the name?

One theory, Jerusalem is a corruption of the Italian Girasola, which means "turning toward the sun," a reference to the sunflower. Another theory takes a different disfiguring Neusen Ter area, the Netherlands, where the Jerusalem artichoke has been introduced in Europe.

Artichoke comes from the Arabic al-khurshuf, meaning thistle, another reference to the appearance of cleavage above the ground. These days it is not as commercial as Jerusalem artichokes sounding strange.

Whether you refer to it as Jerusalem artichokes, artichokes or artichoke tubers have a delicate flavor that is slightly sweet and nutty, like jicama and water chestnuts.

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