Alan Davidson

Vegetable Lamb

Appears in
Oxford Companion to Food
Oxford Companion to Food

By Alan Davidson

Published 2014

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vegetable lamb so called, is really part of a tree fern, Cibotium barometz, of SE Asia. Fanciful thoughts by early travellers caused it to become known as the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary and to be the subject of many legends.

© the Estate of Alan Davidson 1999, 2006, 2014 © in the Editor’s contribution to the second and third editions, Oxford University Press 2006, 2014.