Word: sorrell
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...trend has spread quickly from restaurant kitchens to amateur cooks, and local markets are now stocking such heirloom vegetables as swedes (a kind of turnip with a yellowish root and firm flesh), parsnips and turnip tops, and herbs like purslane and sorrel. The new favorite is the white-flowering ramson, also called broad-leaved garlic because of its pungent odor. Its sales are as robust as its flavor. "A few years ago we had a demand of a mere kilo a week," reports Abdessalem Najar, a vegetable and fruit vendor at Cologne's central market. "Now we sell three...