Food Mystery

Jan 28, 2009 Author: Jeff | Filed under: foodies

It goes without saying that my favorite magazine issue of any magazine is the Saveur top 100… It comes out every January and suggests their 100 food related ideas… This year on their list of suggests places to visit was the Berkeley Bowl in Berkeley, California… An amazing grocery story, just to crowded for me to shop there this weekend if I actually wanted to get out of there within an hour… but what I did find was this unique food item (see photo)…

Please help! I have no idea what it is… there was no sign, and the place was to busy to ask for help… while it does look like a jumbo celery stalk I can assure you it’s not… it was at least two feet long and fairly light… Anyone know what it is?
You’ll have to excuse the photo quality, I took it with my phone.

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2 Responses for "Food Mystery"

Pete January 29th, 2009 at 4:59 pm 1

I sent this email to Curtis this AM. P

And the Mystery Photo is….. Lotus Stem! I got to eat it on the Big Island, out in “Kona Country”. We were eating in this old school Chinese restaurant and the grand mother of the family that owned it found out that I was a chef and went outside to the Coy pond, pulled out fresh lotus and served us Poke on fresh Lotus Stem, it was excellent. Please let me know if the photo is Lotus Stem
Pete January 29th, 2009 at 5:00 pm 2

And the Mystery Photo is….. Lotus Stem! I got to eat it on the Big Island, out in “Kona Country”. We were eating in this old school Chinese restaurant and the grand mother of the family that owned it found out that I was a chef and went outside to the Coy pond, pulled out fresh lotus and served us Poke on fresh Lotus Stem, it was excellent. Please let me know if the photo is Lotus Stem