How did vegetables and fruits get their names?

It is quite surprising to discover how certian names began. The names gooseberry has nothing to do with geese. It was originally gorseberry. In Saxon, gorst from which gorse is derived meant rough. read more

A strange name like promegranate comes from the Latin pomum, a fruit, and granatus meaning many seed. Chestnuts are so named because they originally came from a city called Castana. Walnut came from the saxon word wahi-nut, meaning foreign nut, since it originally came from persia. read more

But as a chef, shopper, gardener and pursuer of produce more than three decades, I’ve been thinking about what it would be like if we started to get more precise about what it is we’re eating by knowing the varietal names of our fruits and vegetables. read more

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