sometime in the recent past Kathi Jones posted this:
(big snip)

Do you use raw chard in your salad and is it just the leaf or stalk too?
Never considered eating it raw. Funny the ruts one can get into.

Chard is the only green we grow down here in SW Louisiana as it is the
only one I actually enjoy eating. We use just the leaf in salads but when
we cook it we use stalk and all. Sometimes we just graze on it as we go
through the garden.
Although my grandfather always seemed to have chard in his garden, we
never ate the leaves - always just boiled the stalks and had them with a
white sauce with butter. Thanks

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Wilson N45 W67

ok, so I'm a chard virgin....what does it taste like? how does it compare
to lettuce? Spinach? something else?

curious,
Kathi


I'm going to let someone else answer this, but it is milder than spinach
when cooked - I don't know about raw.

"Chard Virgin," hmmmn? Sounds like something you might find next to a
volcano ;-)

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Wilson N45 W67