/ Milkweed growing wild outside of Ceraldi in Wellfleet. If you look closely, you can see that the plants have had their tips snapped off for use in the restaurant. The one on the right is growing new shoots that will eventually flower.
I first tasted milkweed a few years ago. I was at Ceraldi in Wellfleet a restaurant known for its focus on hyper-local ingredients and I tried the plants’ shoots. They were bright and snappy and so gloriously green-tasting that I wanted to learn more. Co-owner and chef Michael Ceraldi explains what Asclepias syriaca, or Common Milkweed is.
“It’s edible in the shoot stage and then when it buds too, and even the pods are edible, they can be used like okra.”