{"id":411317,"date":"2010-03-10T04:41:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T09:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d48a69e201310f8562d7970c"},"modified":"2010-03-10T04:41:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T09:41:37","slug":"space-alien-food-or-leaf-vegetable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/411317","title":{"rendered":"Space Alien Food or Leaf Vegetable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cravingideas.com\/.a\/6a00d83451d48a69e20120a91ecf80970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fiddleheads_0310\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451d48a69e20120a91ecf80970b \" src=\"http:\/\/www.cravingideas.com\/.a\/6a00d83451d48a69e20120a91ecf80970b-500wi\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><\/img><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>At the SF Ferry Building, I came across this basket of space alien looking food. Pal <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dianev\">@dianev<\/a> educated me that this was a basket of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fiddlehead_fern\">Fiddleheads<\/a> which are a fern, a leaf vegetable known for their ornamental value. Must be because they were going for $17 a pound.<\/p>\n<p>The name Fiddlehead comes from the fact that they look like the end of a fiddle. I will say they are definitely interesting looking, but call me a simpleton, as I still think they look like food eaten in the Starship Enterprise cafeteria. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some <a href=\"http:\/\/foodgawker.com\/?s=fiddlehead&amp;cat=0\">Fiddlehead dishes<\/a> posted on Food Gawker. Would definitely make for interesting conversation at the dinner table.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ktkL-p4viALsMfOPck59EmynnbQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ktkL-p4viALsMfOPck59EmynnbQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ktkL-p4viALsMfOPck59EmynnbQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ktkL-p4viALsMfOPck59EmynnbQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?a=6tcx_D5fUr8:g5BFVa2Nufw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?a=6tcx_D5fUr8:g5BFVa2Nufw:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?a=6tcx_D5fUr8:g5BFVa2Nufw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Noshtopia?i=6tcx_D5fUr8:g5BFVa2Nufw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Noshtopia\/~4\/6tcx_D5fUr8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 At the SF Ferry Building, I came across this basket of space alien looking food. Pal @dianev educated me that this was a basket of Fiddleheads which are a fern, a leaf vegetable known for their ornamental value. Must be because they were going for $17 a pound. The name Fiddlehead comes from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}