Weird Veggies in the USA That Are Popular Worldwide

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 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. 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 Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group 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
0:17.2	seven vegetables in America and that's about it?
0:19.9	In fact, if you take corn and potatoes, it's probably most of what the average American
0:24.2	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 given me some exposure to things like the bitter melon, right, which I can't say
0:35.0	I'm a fan of, but at least it is something that I ate.
0:38.9	We have Linda Lee back on the show.
0:40.6	She is the blogger behind Garden Betty and then her book, The No Waste Vegetable Cookbook,
0:45.4	is out.
0:46.4	And you can check that out.
0:47.4	We've kind of been talking about it really, Linda, throughout the whole week.
0:51.3	These ways to use vegetables in clever ways.
0:53.7	But now we're kind of getting a little broader and just saying, what are some vegetables that
0:57.9	are uncommon in America, but actually quite common in fact, popular elsewhere.
1:04.2	So this, like you, I'm Asian, I am Vietnamese and Chinese and I grew up eating all kinds
1:10.1	of weird things, including bitter melon, but you know, like bitter melon is not that weird
1:13.9	because they grow it for that squash, you know, for that melon, you know, what I grew
1:20.5	up eating was, you know, things like pepper leaves and squash leaves.
1:28.5	And of course pea shoots, you know, but they are staples in all of these different cuisines
1:34.2	that most Americans are not familiar with.
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