- Strategizing about coffee. Over cappuccinos, I suspect.
- Treesilience. I like that.
- Enough with the superfoods already.
- Which is not something anybody ever called tiger nuts.
- You can now officially blame the potato for the fall of civilization.
- A really expensive cup of tea.
- Wheat blast reaches Asia.
- Crowdfunding tree conservation on Hawaii.
The Tiger nut article seems to confuse the weed ‘Yellow nutsedge’ Cyperus esculentus with chufa (Tiger nut) Cyperus esculentus var sativus. Although they are closely related, their growth habits are not the same.
Where yellow nutsedge spreads with long stolons and produces flowers and seed which makes it hard to control, chufa produces all its tubers directly under the plant and does not flower. Also, the tubers of chufa do not survive though cold, wet winters. I know mine come up again the next year because my winters are mild but they are easy to control because they don’t spread.
The writer seems not to know how to use chufa. It is not chewed as a dry tuber, it is made into a variety of delicious, nutty tasting dishes after grinding, or boiling.
The article does this delicious food no justice and a bit more research would have gone a long way.