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Relishing the Radish
A cultural and culinary history, plus: A recipe for radish, parsley and goat’s cheese salad. By Julia Watson, July 4, 2021
Takeaways
Radishes may be small, but they are members of the very big Brassicaceae family, led by cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli, with horseradish eye-wateringly bringing up the rear. They are an ancient vegetable, found in Europe well before the Romans.
Yet evidence establishing their origin and the passage of their domestication is vague. Only in the 1st century AD do Greek and Roman records mention the radish.
The first
But it has a long pedigree and was one of the first European crops introduced to the Americas. That seems a bit of an esoteric choice, considering that a pilgrim must surely be scrupulously