Upon arriving here in Skåne, I couldn't help but notice the shockingly bright yellow fields lining the highways and scattered across the rolling landscape. It's pretty stunning in the intensity of color. I thought it might be mustard greens, but I learned the crop is raps, or rapeseed. Rapeseed is one of Skåne's major crops, along with wheat, rye, barley, oats, sugar beets and potatoes.
I then learned rapeseed oil (which I knew of) is the same as canola oil (which I did not know). I did a little more research on rapeseed (I'm unemployed currently) and found some interesting trivia:
- "canola" is an abbreviation for "Canadian Oilseed, Low Acid," the acronym first used by the Manitoba government when the plant was in its experimental stages to create a less bitter, more palatable, oil.
- the leaves and stems are eaten as well in Asian cuisine. So that's what yao choy is! And rapeseed greens can also appear as sag, as in sag paneer - one of my favorite Indian dishes.
Here's a glimpse of the fields.
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| Along with traditional agriculture, a lot of wind farms in Skåne as well. |
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