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tossed salad of mixed greens. If mixed with other mild salad greens, a bit of mustard
in the vinaigrette dressing would be nice.
When the weather is cool, and hot food more welcome, try any of the following:
• Combine it (at the last minute) with a steaming dish of turnips and carrots.
• Stir-fry in sesame oil with ginger and soy sauce for flavoring.
• Use in clear soups or as a last-minute addition to minestrone. It makes an unusu-
ally fine cream soup, garnished with a sprinkling of garlic chives.
Garland Chrysanthemum
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Chrysanthemum coronarium
(color photo, page ix)
If you grow many of the wonderful Chinese vegetables in this topic, your neighbors will
be very confused; they won't be able to tell your vegetable garden from your flower
garden. Also known as shungiku or edible chrysanthemum, this plant is a true chrysan-
themum, with recognizable chrysanthemum flowers. Only you will know that it's also a
superb vegetable. (Don't rush to nibble at your flower-bed chrysanthemums, however;
you'll find them much too bitter.)
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