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Alternatively, if you're craving a chunky version, follow Mazzucca's example and simmer diced parsnips, potatoes, carrots, butternut squash, and onions in your favorite broth.
The parsnip is native to Eurasia; it has been used as a vegetable since antiquity and was cultivated by the Romans, although some confusion exists between parsnips and carrots in the literature of the time. It was used as a sweetener before the arrival of cane sugar in Europe. [3] Parsnips are usually cooked but can also be eaten raw.
The etymology of the generic name Pastinaca is not known with certainty. The name may be derived from the Latin word pastino (or pastinare), meaning "to prepare the ground for planting of the vine" (or more simply, "to dig") or the Latin word pastus, meaning "food", liberally translated as "Earth-food".
Cabbage plants. Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, kale, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mustard plant and similar green leaf vegetables.
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The parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is a root vegetable closely related to carrot and parsley, all belonging to the flowering plant family Apiaceae.It is a biennial plant usually grown as an annual.
Wild parsnip is a common name for several plants and may refer to: . Wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa), is a Eurasian weed with edible root but toxic sap in the leaves and stems