For the most part the Jerusalem artichoke is grown as animal feed. Its tall stalks topped with their yellow, daisy like-flowers can be seen growing in many fields all over the region. Some Peasants regard this root vegetable fit only for cattle, and certainly Paul Mader treated the idea of bringing it to the able as a hilarious eccentricity, (Perhaps the kind given to cattle are a coarse variety; just as the maize grown in such vast quantities is a somewhat poor relation of the sweet corn so Popular across the Atlantic.) In the Dordogne, however as in Britain they have known for years what a lovely potage can be made from these tubers.
