{"id":144763,"date":"2025-09-07T19:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=144763"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:12:00","slug":"under-the-fork-spotlight-the-tomato-by-joe-scrizzi-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=144763","title":{"rendered":"Under the Fork | Spotlight: The Tomato &#8211; By: Joe Scrizzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Under the Fork | Spotlight: <\/strong><strong>Kale<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By: Joe Scrizzi<\/strong><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I stumbled across a farmer&#8217;s market on one of my recent fishing trips up north.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I was surprised at the variety of vegetables they had to\u00a0offer.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In one of the bins, I saw a word I did not recognize: Lacinato Kale.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Lacinato Kale is also known Dinosaur or Tuscan Kale (as I was accustomed to). Tuscan and other types of kale are great in salads, soups and baked for kale chips.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This plant is very hearty, as it&#8217;s a cool weather plant and can be found in local farmers markets later in the season. It&#8217;s also known as a cut-and-come crop (harvest the leaves, leave the root ball intact to regrow).<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Bon Appetite!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the Fork | Spotlight: Kale By: Joe Scrizzi I stumbled across a farmer&#8217;s market on one of my recent fishing trips up north. I was surprised at the variety &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=144763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Under the Fork | Spotlight: The Tomato &#8211; By: Joe Scrizzi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,2360,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-joe-scrizzi","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/kale.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}