FROM PATCH TO PLATE Matthew Fort
Did you know that the Scots used to call their kitchen gardens the kailyard, so great was their love of this inestimable vegetable? I’m with the Scots on this. Kale is a swashbuckling vegetable. It thrives when lesser vegetables wither and wilt. It is pleasingly easy to grow, tolerant of casual, “The hardiness of kale is unexcelled by any other vegetable – there is none of the heartache in seeing all one’s handwork destroyed by sharp and prolonged frost.” Heartache, indeed.
