Tuesday 17 June 2008

Artichokes

If you don't cut your artichokes at this stage...



... this is what happens to them:

artichoke in flower

In the former, they are delicious; in the latter, they are beautiful.

4 comments:

  1. As you say "in the former, they are delicious; in the latter, they are beautiful". It's up to us to choose before at the very end are neither delicious or beautiful.

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  2. I didn't know artichokes were so beautiful!

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  3. Something very similar is growing in my back jungle. But I was told they are like wild artichokes. The neighbor harvested some leaves (before the top part came). He said in Israel only the Moroccan Jews know how to cook it, and they call it charshoof.
    They do have pretty flowers, eh?

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  4. Lovely, interesting and contrasting photos. I saw artichokes (as in first photo) growing when I visited my daugher in Iraklion 15 years ago, but had never seen them in bloom. They make beautiful flowers.

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