HOORAY! The purple carrot is back!

[sff_corgi_lj]

I was first told about purple carrots being period by a member of my shire (who, alas, is no longer playing), Lady Giovanna. I'd been hoping they'd come back ever since, and apparently the New Foodie-ism has done so! (Am I the last one to hear about this?)

• 'Roses are Red, Carrots are Purple'


• 'Food for Thought: A Carrot Rainbow' (with pictures!)


• 'Carrots' nutrients can be judged by the color of their skin'


• (From 2002) 'Purple carrots to go on sale' (at Sainsbury's in the U.K.)


• Royal Horticultural Society: The Garden, August 2004 (photo and seed source)


• USDA Carrot Sources


• Salem, Oregon's Bon Appetit Cafe's 'Organic Rainbow Carrots with Walnut Oil and Toasted Cumin Seeds' (recipe)


• Bunches of carrots (photo, from Nina Camic's Blogspot)


• Colorful Harvest fresh produce (supplier)


• Pp. 7-8: Discussion of carotenoids and the variation in rainbow carrot nutrients (PDF)

Heh. Selene, are the cooking Laurels gonna ding anybody using Dutch-orange carrots in any early period dishes from now on? *giggle* Hmmm... the East will be able to render their arms in carrots now! Now there's a subtlety for you.

ETA:

• Amanda of Mynydd-Gwyn on carrots


• The Carrot Museum

Comments

[poconell.livejournal.com]

Very hip! If they taste like parsnips however, I'm staying away!

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Tchah, they taste like carrots. The white ones, not having much to them, are the mildest. Not unlike bell peppers, the different colours lend slight flavour variations.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

I"m not sure if it was beetroot or carrotthat made blind people able to see by jsut eating it.
this was highly informationa land itneresting post ;)

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

It's the beta carotene vitamin in the carrots that's supposed to help your vision (which has some science behind it). Parents used to tell kids to eat their carrots if they wanted to see in the dark. ^_^

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Seeds! I want Seeds! I have not seen the other-color carrots for sale out here yet, I want to be the first on my block with them. Take that, Laurels!

Tangentially, I've saved seeds from some awesome purple tomatoes we got at Whole Foods market the other day with some of the best deep tomato taste and hardly any acid at all. Made awesome pasta sauce, and gods willing will do again.

This is what I abstracted for Myfi from the USDA list

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

• Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
  http://www.RareSeeds.com/
  Atomic Red, Solar Yellow [these are names of ultrabright paper stock colours!! -- me]
  
• Bountiful Gardens
  http://www.bountifulgardens.org/
  Amarillo Yellow, Belgian White, Purple Dragon
  
• Irish Eyes
  http://www.irish-eyes.com/
  Gourmet Carrot Blend, Lubiana (yellow), Nutri-Red, Yellowstone
  
• Kitchen Garden Seeds
  http://www.kitchengardenseeds.com/
  Nutri-Red, Purple Dragon, Snow White, Yellowstone
  
• Nichols Garden Nursery
  http://www.nicholsgardennursery.com/
  Belgian White Heirloom, Yellowstone Hybrid
  
• Sunshine Farms
  http://www.sunshinefarm.net/
  Dutch Golden
  
• Territorial Seed
  http://www.territorial-seed.com/
  Kuttinger (white), Yellowstone
  

Non-orange carrots available from wholesalers
Entries with * are available in the home gardener list above

• Bejo Seeds, Inc. http://www.bejoseeds.com/
  Mello Yellow (Yellow)
  Purple Haze (Purple)
  Rainbow* (Mix of pale orange, yellow, white)
  White Satin (White)
  Yellowstone* (Yellow)
  
• Indo-American Hybrid Seeds (India) Pvt. Ltd.
  http://www.indamseeds.com/
  Indam-13 (Red)
  
• Seminis http://www.seminis.com/
  Nutri-Red* (Red)
  PS 71001 (Yellow)
  PS 71603 (Purple + Orange)
  PS 800195 (Yellow)
  
• Sperli Samen, Carl Sperling & Cohttp://www.sperli.de/
  Lobbericher (Yellow)
  
• Sunseeds http://www.sunseeds.com/
  SBC L17 (White)
  SBC L18 (Purple + Orange)
  SBC L20 (Yellow)
  
• American Takii Seed http://www.takii.com/
  Scarlet Wonder (Red)

Re: This is what I abstracted for Myfi from the USDA list

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Picture of 'Purple Haze' carrots:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1991768.stm