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Featured Recipe - Steamed Artichokes with Lemon-Butter Sauce

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Featured Recipe - Steamed Artichokes with Lemon-Butter Sauce

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Ellen Britt, PA, Ed.D.
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Denise Wakeman
May 30, 2023
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If you have ever wondered why artichokes have those little sharp spines on their “leaves” which are more properly known as bracts, it’s because you are eating the bud of a thistle! The bracts conceal a fuzzy, fibrous and inedible center known as the choke. 

All of the bracts on the outside of the artichoke are too fibrous to chew and swallow, so you have…

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