unsung heroes of food — rhubarb

my struggles and wins with the fruit imposter

I have this impression of rhubarb as an old-fashioned food, a required favorite of everyone’s grandmother or great-grandmother.

And upon reading into rhubarb, because I’m a nerd and have books like this on hand, I found that my impression is not wrong. According to Harold McGee in his essential “On The History of Food and Cooking” :

“By the 18th century …