Growing Your Own Horseradish
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Growing Your Own HorseradishGrowing Your Own HorseradishOUR horseradish roots looked so innocent #xwhen they arrived in theHeavy duty tarpsmail last spring. Just little brown sticks, about eight inches long and as narrow as pencils.But last weekend, when we harvested the year-old roots of one plant, they were on the atomic side of hot.“I can feel it burning all the way down,” my boyfriend, Rock,DVD Ripper, croaked, reaching into the fridge for his Gatorade. (The Rock gets heartburn from eating an orange.) “Now it’s a hot spot at the bottom of my stomach.”My sinuses were clear for the first time in months. I couldn’t wait to mix huge dollops of this stuff with chili sauce to eat with steamed shrimp, or straight with rare roast beef.And guess what? This root, when ground, produces isothiocyanates, chemical compounds that are studied for their anti-cancer properties.“It would take about a tablespoon, on your steak, to give you that little anti-cancer shot,” said Mark E. Uchanski, an assistant professor at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, who did hisHeavy duty tarpsdoctoral thesis at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on horseradish.Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana) is in the brassica family, which includes turnips, kale, mustard greens, broccoli rabe, daikon radish and many other plants with varying degrees of pungency and a similar taste. Native to the temperate regions of Europe and Asia, it is an ancient herb.“The Oracle at Delphi told Apollo that the radish was worth its weight in lead, the beet its weight in silver, and the horseradish its weight in gold,” Arthur O. Tucker and Thomas DeBaggio wrote in “The Big Book of Herbs” (Interweave Press, 2000), my bible for growing everything from hot peppers to patchouli.The Romans carried horseradish to Europe as a medicinal herb and as a flavoring. It was cultivated in Egypt before the exodus of the Hebrew slaves around 1500 B.C., and is often #xthe symbolicHeavy duty tarpsbitter herb at the Passover Seder.相关的主题文章：
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