Kale Salad Recipes Biography
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What used to be a frilly green decorative item in food displays is now recognized as a nutrition powerhouse. In the past, caterers would display a scintillating entrée by placing it on a bed of bright green parsley and kale. From just a decorative adornment for the "real food," kale has become the most valuable "real food" for the health conscious.
Chef Dan Barber had been serving kale chips to happy customers at his Stone Hill Barns restaurant in New York. When he shared his kale chip recipe in a 2009 issue of Bon Appetit, he noticed the vegetable jumped into prominence. By developing more kale recipes and presenting them in innovative recipes, he sparked such interest that Bejo Seeds, a seed company, began to notice a flurry of seed sales overnight. (Abend)
Kale is also driving the explosion of T-shirts that tout the passion for the leafy greens with a multitude of creative expressions. Here are some of the messages that might evoke a chuckle or two:
Real Men Eat Kale
Highway to Kale
Give 'em Kale
Kale University
Powered by Kale
Got Kale?
Half Kale, Half Ninja
Vote for Kale
Come Más Kale (Spanish)
Even Whole Foods Market in all of its stores recognizes the power of kale in its nutrition rating system called ANDI, an acronym for Aggregate Nutrient Density Index. ANDI is the creation of Dr. Joel Fuhrman, founder of Eat Right America and the author of Eat to Live.
Kale Kale's ANDI score of 1000 places it at the top of the scale in a virtual tie with mustard, turnip, and collard greens as well as watercress. Bok choy and baby bok choy, next on the list, score 824, almost 200 points below the 1000-point leaders. (Top Ten Andi Scores)
Kale and its relative, collards, are so close they even share the same Latin name, Brassica oleracea Acephala. Both have central leaves that do not form a head like other members of the Brassica oleracea family: cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts. The principal difference between kale and collards is the shape of the leaves. Collards have large, smooth, broad green leaves while most varieties of kale have a short thick stalk with crinkly leaves. (Kiple)
HISTORY
No one is certain about where kale and collards were first grown, but they were most likely descended from wild cabbage in Asia Minor and the countries around the Mediterranean where they were known to exist in prehistoric times. Kale was a valuable food for Stone Age hunter-gatherers because it could survive the severe winter cold. (Kiple)
The early Romans not only knew about Brassica, but also recognized its healthful properties and shared their knowledge in extensive writings. They grew collards and kale as far back as at least 2,200 years ago. (Kiple)
Theophrastus (371 BC to 287 BC), often considered the father of botany, described a curly-leaved non-heading cabbage that was most likely kale. He distinguished it from wild cabbage classified as Brassica erratica. (Root)
Cato "the Censor" (234 BC to 149 BC) wrote that the entire Brassica family possessed health benefits and suggested that it be eaten cooked or pickled. (Roberts)
Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder (AD 23 to AD 79) in his Historia Naturalis described a bulbous plant like kohlrabi, leaf cabbages, and headed cabbages that was 12 inches in diameter. He felt the plant family had extraordinary medicinal properties and listed 87 medicines that were partially or entirely derived from Brassicas. (Roberts)
Animals instinctively recognized Brassicas as a valuable food source, and toward the end of the twentieth century livestock were devouring more of these crucifers than humans. That's why cruciferous vegetables were sometimes called "cow cabbage." (Root)
Because kale thrives in cool climates, it was easy to grow in countries like Scotland as well as regions in Northern Europe like Germany and Denmark. When first introduced to Europeans, kale was not as popular in Italy and France, although it appeared in the royal kitchen gardens of Versailles in 1620 and gained acceptance much later. (Root)
Kale Salad In 1980, food writer Waverley Root wrote that kale was eaten mostly in Southern US where it became popular as a result of the slave trade. "In the rest of the country, kale, once described as 'an old regular' in food stores, is disappearing from the supermarkets: it is not the kind of food which it is profitable to handle on a large scale, and as a result the northern United States is being deprived of it," wrote Root. (Root)
NUTRITION
Kale is a definite cancer fighter with compounds like sulforaphane and indoles. It's loaded with beta-carotene, the plant form of vitamin A with one cup producing 10,000 IU of vitamin A, almost two times the RDA. Kale provides almost a day's worth of vitamins C and E and is also high in potassium and fiber. (Mindell)
When vegans are asked, "Where do you get your calcium?" they could quote Jo Robinson, author of Eating on the Wild Side, who reveals that one serving of kale provides more calcium than a six-ounce glass of milk. She also adds that same serving offers more fiber than three slices of whole wheat bread. (Robinson)
Joel Fuhrman, MD, author of Eat to Live, The End of Diabetes, and Disease-Proof Your Child, emphasizes the nutritional value of kale by offering T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Kale is the new beef." Dr. Fuhrman originated the statement and began placing it on T-shirts in December 2010. The doctor has long touted green vegetables as an excellent protein source that should be the centerpiece of the plate instead of meat. He rates kale at the top of his Aggregate Nutrient Den
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Kale Salad Recipes Salam Recipes In Urdu Healthy Easy For Dinner For Lunch For Braai with Lettuce Photos Pics Pictures
Kale Salad Recipes Salam Recipes In Urdu Healthy Easy For Dinner For Lunch For Braai with Lettuce Photos Pics Pictures
Kale Salad Recipes Salam Recipes In Urdu Healthy Easy For Dinner For Lunch For Braai with Lettuce Photos Pics Pictures
Kale Salad Recipes Salam Recipes In Urdu Healthy Easy For Dinner For Lunch For Braai with Lettuce Photos Pics Pictures
Kale Salad Recipes Salam Recipes In Urdu Healthy Easy For Dinner For Lunch For Braai with Lettuce Photos Pics Pictures
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