(Look for the white turnip shop sign).
Turnip (Brassica rapa, variety rapa), also known as white turnip, hardy biennial plant in the mustard family (Brassicaceae), cultivated for its fleshy roots and tender growing tops.
I also bought my turnip seed from Johnny's: Hakurei, a two-inch-round white turnip that takes 38 days to mature, is delicious raw or cooked.
And if you cannot find authentic produce like daikon, substitute something else, a white turnip perhaps.
A little white turnip can be an asset, but it is very easy to overdo it.
Flaky white turnip pastries, made with dried shrimp and pork, are fabulous, deep-fried yellowfish is astoundingly good, and dried bean curd with jalapenos is strong and sharp.
The loser was pappardelle, which despite assertive broccoli rape and slices of white turnip, was dominated by gray pieces of duck in a dull gravy.
The meal began with the presentation of a panda's garden, an elaborate scene of pandas at play assembled from carved glistening white turnip, egg whites, duck, chicken and broccoli, all meant more for admiring than for eating.
In addition to the familiar purple-tinged variety, look for small, thoroughly white turnips with thin skins, red-skinned turnips reminiscent of radishes, and yellow turnips that are golden through and through.
I learned to eat white turnips when I was living in Paris in the mid-1970's.
Saltwhite crumbling mush of corpse: smell, taste like raw white turnips".
