Think of Thanksgiving dishes you most dread and mashed rutabaga probably springs first to mind. What was that vaguely bitter orange stuff Aunt Tilly was so fond of anyway? Outside Minnesota, rutabaga have all the appeal of a dead skunk on the highway. Or do you have to be Scandinavian to love this under-appreciated root? […]
This was the last week in Scandinavia for my food appreciation classes on our virtual world culinary tour. We couldn’t very well leave without sampling one of the Nordic region’s favorite vegetables: rutabaga. I know what you’re thinking: Rutabaga! Yuck! This underground cousin of cabbage and kale is so closely associated with Swedish tastes that […]
Could there be a more maligned vegetable than the rutabga? Most people don’t even know what it is. Cousin to the turnip, it’s bigger and yellower. Some people call it “Swede.” We call rutabaga sublime, especially after it’s been souffled. We hold a great deal of affection for this recipe from the February 1991 issue of […]
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