neutral baking powder or shorten the cooking
time and you get a light orange pudding).
Persimmon flesh can be whipped into a long-
lived foam thanks to its tannins, which help
bind fragments of cell walls together to
stabilize the air pockets. In Japan, most
Hachiya persimmons are dried, massaged
every few days to even out the moisture and
break down some of the fibrousness to a soft,
doughy consistency.
Food Words: Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a medieval Latin coinage, a
combination of Greek rha and barbarum:
“rhubarb” and “foreign.” Rha also meant
the Volga River, so the plant may have
been named after it: it came from foreign
lands to the east of the Volga.Rhubarb Rhubarb is a vegetable that often
masquerades as a fruit. It is the startlingly
sour leaf stalks of a large herb, Rheum