Xref: utzoo rec.food.cooking:18767 sci.bio:3231 rec.gardens:4492 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bunyip!brolga!uqcspe!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au!king From: king@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Paul King) Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking,sci.bio,rec.gardens Subject: Re: Romanesco Broccoli (was: Broccoflower) Message-ID: <4227@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 10 Jul 90 06:36:54 GMT References: <31477@cup.portal.com> <628@iss-rb.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Sender: news@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au Reply-To: king@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au Followup-To: rec.food.cooking Lines: 26 donnam@palomar.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Donna Mitchell) writes: >In article hughes@blizzard.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Hughes) writes: >> >>If I'm thinking of what you're thinking, this vegetable also goes by >>the name of Romanesco broccoli ... > Several people have mentioned Romanesco Broccoli. I would like > to put in a good word for this veggie... I have tried Romanesco broccoli with reasonable success also. I have also bought seeds for Floccoli (distributed by Thompson and Morgan in Australia - although I think they have just changed their name). I haven't tried them yet, but the description says that floccoli is a cross between broccoli and cauliflower - tastes like the first, looks like the second (only slightly creamier - as you get from not protecting cauliflower from the sun). The heads weigh up to 0.8kg (1 3/4 lb). The sowing guide also says that the plants do better when grown during the warmer months of the year, whereas some broccoli and most cauliflower are grown in the cooler months (in this part of Australia at least). Paul. -- Paul King _--_|\ Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Queensland / X Queensland, Australia, 4072 \_.--._/ king@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (ACSNET) v