Chef and restauranteur Cara Stadler is a huge fan of lotus root, the underwater Asian root vegetable known for its unusual, lace-like interior and sometimes for its bitter or, some say, swampy, flavor ...
Lotus plants grow wild mainly in the temperate and subtropical zones of the Northern hemisphere and are thought to have been cultivated in Japan since the Nara period (710–94). The pedestal for Buddha ...
From the muddy bottom of ponds and rice paddies in Southeast Asia comes the lotus rhizome — the tuber-like, sausage-shaped stem of the lotus plant. It’s this multi-link rhizome that sends up sets of ...