“Weird” Veggies in the USA That Are Popular Worldwide

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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There are many parts of common plants that aren’t as common to see in American stores and markets that you can use in your cuisine such as pepper leaves, Squash leaves, and tomato leaves. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/45C8PGT Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3xjypUm Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/4c5PyzQ EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3XxcKT6 Learn More: Do Regrowing Food Scraps Hacks Actually Work?Connect With Linda Ly:Author and blogger Linda Ly started writing about gardening, garden-to-table recipes, and outdoor adventures on Garden Betty in 2010. Since then, her stories, tutorials, and free resources have attracted 5 million visitors per year from around the world. Linda has written several cookbooks, including The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook, and has appeared in Time, Food & Wine, HGTV Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook Instagram Facebook Email List YouTube Lazy Gardening Academy Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information?... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're listening to the show and you wonder, is it really true that we eat like seven
0:17.6	vegetables in America and that's about it? In fact, if you take corn and potatoes, it's probably
0:22.1	most of what the average American eats.
0:25.2	And the truth is that the world of vegetables is actually much more broad than that.
0:28.6	I, of course, have grown up half Filipino.
0:31.2	That's giving me some exposure to things like the
0:33.6	bitter melon right which I can't say I'm a fan of but at least it is something that
0:37.4	I ate we have Linda Lee back on the show she is the blogger behind Garden Betty
0:42.0	and then her book the The No Waste Vegetable Cookbook, is out and you can check that out.
0:47.2	We've kind of been talking about it really, Linda, throughout the whole week, these ways to use vegetables in clever ways ways but now we're kind of getting a
0:54.4	little broader and just saying what are some vegetables that are uncommon in
0:58.9	America but actually quite common in in effect popular elsewhere.
1:04.2	So this, like you, I'm Asian, I am Vietnamese and Chinese, and I grew up eating all kinds of weird
1:10.6	things including bitter melon, but you know, like melon's not that weird because they grow it for that squash you know for that melon
1:18.8	you know what I grew up eating was, you know, things like pepper leaves and squash leaves and of course
1:28.8	pea shoots, you know, but they are staples in all of these different cuisines that most Americans are not familiar with.
1:36.0	And most people don't see them, you know, unless you go to a really good farmers market,
1:41.0	usually in like a big city where they might have that if they have
1:44.3	like a lot of ethnic farm stands but you have to be a gardener to be able to get access to a lot of this and
1:51.7	I think that's that's kind of a shame but that's also one of the
1:54.0	benefits of growing your own food is having access to all these nutritious vegetables that you
1:59.5	otherwise would never know about. So squash leaves is one thing. In Asia the squash
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