The Counterintuitive Cooked Carrot
You may wonder why we consider cooked carrots “counterintuitive.” Conventional wisdom suggests that raw vegetables are more nutritious, but that’s not the case with carrots. Chef Jamie Simpson of the Culinary Vegetable Institute recently discussed a...
Health Benefits of Carrots
When you pick up a farm-fresh carrot from The Chef’s Garden, you’ll probably first notice its beautiful color—ranging from traditional orange to hues of purple, red, or yellow—as well as its shape (which might be traditional or round) and its size. Then, when you bite...
History’s Greatest Pairings: Peas and Carrots
Like Romeo and Juliet pledging their eternal love, or Simon and Garfunkel singing about the Sounds of Silence—or the Roadrunner always outsmarting Wile E. Coyote—some things are just meant to be together. And, of course, we believe that any list of the world’s...