Harold McGee

Rhubarb

Appears in
On Food and Cooking
On Food and Cooking

By Harold McGee

Published 2004

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Rhubarb, the leaf stalks of a large perennial herb, is unusual for containing a high concentration of oxalic acid. Its main use in the West is as a tart stand-in for fruit, so I describe it in the next chapter.

From the book On Food and Cooking (2nd edition) by Harold McGee. © 2004 Harold McGee. By permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.