Potato Po-ta-to
I did manage to find a pretty cool looking vegetable while at Russo's though, and I did, of course, what you must naturally do with food you don't understand. I ruined it. It never occurred to me that it might be a good idea to investigate recipes with purple potatoes or to figure out whether they ought to be treated differently than the regular stock. So I sliced and cooked them, and then made the most horrendous-looking warm potato salad (note, it's brown, sludgy overtones were only part of the reason the raw model and not the result made this post). Poh-tay-toe does not, apparently, equal poh-tah-toe. They're a marvelous-looking species, but now, it's time for me to do my homework.