Produce 101

Italian or Genovese Basil is most commonly used in pesto, salad dressings, homemade pasta sauce, and salads with tomatoes and vinegar.

Radishes are a root vegetable found in a wide range of sizes, shapes and colors. Good quality radishes should be firm without any wrinkles.

A thick, white stalk with multiple long, flat, dark green leaves wrapped around each other at the opposite end.

Celery comes in bunches of long, thick, pale green stalks with thin leaves at the end. Celery is a common aromatic ingredient, along with onion and carrots, that enhance the flavor when cooked into dishes. It is also a great addition to stocks or a an easy snack eaten raw.

Small, round, and smooth with a purplish-blue color and a hint of silver.

Rutabaga is a root vegetable, also known as Swedish turnip because of it’s wide popularity in Swedish food. The tender leaves are edible, but it is usually the root bulb sold at farmers’ markets and supermarkets. The bulb is round with a pointed tip, with white, yellow, light purple, and dark purple coloring.

Sunchokes have a brown skin and are irregularly shaped, just like ginger. The inside of a sunchoke is white.

Sweet corn is the shape of a long oval, with soft white or yellow kernels. Sometimes sweet corn will be covered by its husk, a natural green casing, and thread-like strands underneath, called silk. Sweet corn kernels are typically prepared as a vegetable and the husk can be used to make tamales.