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Saturday, August 05, 2006

Kudzu? EDIBLE?!

Who'da guessed? Growing up with the constant threat of being totally consumed by this ivy that grows -no, I'm not shitting you, here- a foot a DAY, EVERY day, it's a little backwards-feeling to consider this stuff as EDIBLE. Growing up, I remember entire forests consumed by this stuff. It will crawl up, over, and all around a tree and literally strangle the tree. Time passes, the ivy stays, the tree rots and falls away, and all that is left is a kudzu-cave the shape of a tree. Yah, pretty odd!

But then, again, Kudzu is pretty odd, too.

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posted by Charlie # 8/05/2006 10:45:00 PM

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Did you find that out by watching "Feasting on Asphalt"? I was watching Alton Brown's show last night and he mentioned that Kudzu was edible and I didn't believe him. Normally, he's my guy and everything but this time I think he's feeding us a line.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ab

# posted by

pvt_idaho : Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:42:00 AM

Yep, bought it hook, line, and sinker. Not that Wkipedia is the end-all authority on botany, but they corroborated AB's statement, too.

# posted by

Charlie : Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:19:00 AM

Just watched this show on Saturday. I don't see myself eating kudzu anytime soon, though.

When I lived in Seattle, I had a tree that was pretty well strangled by Virginia creeper, and until I moved away from suburban Nashville last year, I had a pretty big oak that developed a fairly thick coat of poison ivy every summer.

One December I tried to kill it off by cutting away about six inches of all the stems, about five feet off the ground, since that had worked pretty well on the Virginia creeper. It was back the next summer, stronger than ever.

No vines at the current residence in Alabama, but we *do* have some bamboo in the back yard. Avoid! Avoid!

# posted by

xf : Monday, August 14, 2006 2:56:00 PM

Yes, we have Kudzu festivals in the southeast...in self-defense. ;)

Kudzu is edible (the non-woody parts).

# posted by

Anonymous : Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:11:00 PM

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