Posted by Loulou on Jan 6, 2014 | 0 comments

  Topinambour/Jerusalem Artichokes/Sunchokes Mama’s looking up etymologies of words, inspired by a friend in Rome who sent her a wonderful recipe for Jerusalem artichoke soup. It seems that Americans called the sunchoke they found in the New World a girasole, which is French for sunflower and girasole got changed to Jerusalem and then it became...