It is a vegetable and a herb, in the botanical sense of the words, it is a fruit in the culinary sense that it is treated as one.
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I was quite intrigued by this sentence from the rhubarb info website:
Is it just me, or does the wording of that sentence make it sound like Ontario and Canada are “northern states in the United States”?
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Doesn’t rhubarb look a lot like red celery? In fact, is rhubarb related to celery?
If you want to see the mother of all rhubarb plants, check this site out. Scroll down the page a bit.
Rhubarb is GORGEOUS!!!
Rhubarb crumble and custard is as good as it gets.
Rhubarb fool comes close…
I grow it in my garden. I love it. It does funny things to your teeth though.
My favorite rhubarb fact:
http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues02/Co04062002/CO_04062002_Recipes.htm
In the north of England they grow rhubarb indoors in large , windowless sheds to produce a very early crop of " forced " rhubarb which is very pale pink in colour and very tender. You could do the same with an outdoor plant by placing a large bucket or barrel over the plant and getting an earlier crop than normal in the type of climate we have in the UK.