{"id":14326,"date":"2013-11-14T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T00:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=14326"},"modified":"2021-10-31T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:30:26","slug":"giant-artichoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/giant-artichoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Artichoke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I spent a few summers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monterey.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Monterey<\/a>, California when I was a kid. We&#8217;d land at the airport in San Francisco and drive south, cutting across the mouth of the agriculturally-oriented Salinas Valley before heading down towards the Monterey Peninsula. Oftentimes we&#8217;d stop in Castroville along the way for a special treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m30!1m8!1m3!1d1629140.9056820325!2d-121.97365200000002!3d37.107121!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!4m19!3e0!4m5!1s0x808f778c55555555%3A0xa4f25c571acded3f!2sSan%20Francisco%20International%20Airport%2C%20San%20Francisco%2C%20CA%2094128!3m2!1d37.6213129!2d-122.3789554!4m5!1s0x808e06df91b0aead%3A0xe22eb5377a68e6e3!2sCastroville%2C%20California!3m2!1d36.7619511!2d-121.7517702!4m5!1s0x808de45270b5fb91%3A0xee484909d84a3d5e!2sMonterey%2C%20California!3m2!1d36.600237799999995!2d-121.8946761!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1578181101327!5m2!1sen!2sus\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><small>The Route Through Castroville<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Castroville<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s important to understand that Castroville billed itself as the &#8220;Artichoke Center of the World.&#8221; We&#8217;d stop just off the highway at a place called the Giant Artichoke for one of their more famous delicacies, deep fried artichokes. I learned at an early age that anything could be improved with a layer of batter and a few minutes bubbling in a fryer. Those were some good eats. They probably weren&#8217;t the healthiest food option available although that never crossed my mind at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/trishalyn\/7114632023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7223\/7114632023_d7202d884c_o.jpg\" alt=\"GiantArtichoke-02. Photo by Trisha Fawver; (CC BY-ND 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Giant Artichoke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I jumped onto Street View and &#8212; surprise! &#8212; the Giant Artichoke was <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/f17UJZjJkTopRAnf9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>still there<\/em><\/a> after all those years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Castroville existed long before it became an Artichoke Center. The <a href=\"https:\/\/northmontereycountychamber.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">local Chamber of Commerce<\/a> traced its founding to 1863, making Castroville the second oldest town in Monterey County. However its relationship with artichokes have long since eclipsed whatever other history it may have ever undergone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the Giant Artichoke, Castroville serves as the home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/artichokes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Artichoke Advisory Board<\/a> and sponsors an annual <a href=\"https:\/\/artichokefestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artichoke Festival<\/a>. They also crown an Artichoke Queen. Artichoke royalty may not sound all that impressive although the first Queen crowned in 1948 went on to slightly greater fame. She was Norma Jean Baker upon her ascent to the throne, later Marilyn Monroe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artichokes were native to areas around the Mediterranean. Most cultivation <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artichoke#Agricultural_output\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still takes place there<\/a> even today: Italy led world production with nearly a half million metric tonnes in 2010. While California produced &#8220;nearly 100% of the U.S. crop, and about 80% of that [was] grown in Monterey County,&#8221; national output equaled only about forty thousand metric tonnes. Maybe Castroville should change its name to reflect a smaller geographic footprint?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What about artichokes in the U.S. Upper Midwest?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/afiler\/226337040\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/63\/226337040_b09c47d31a_c.jpg\" alt=\"Artichoke, Minnesota. Photo by Andrew Filer; (CC BY-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I consulted the <a href=\"https:\/\/geonames.usgs.gov\/pls\/gnispublic\/\">Geographic Names Information System<\/a> and discovered a handful of populated Artichokes in the Upper Midwest, which confounded me. Why would there be an artichoke anything there? The first two instances involved a hamlet and township in Big Stone County, Minnesota (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/VBDEL7jgLxZQb6Vr8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). The second was a township in Potter County, South Dakota, just a few miles away from <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=12597\">the Obscure Gettysburg<\/a>. That was an odd coincidence although I found nothing further about South Dakota&#8217;s Artichoke Township other than its location (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/1wDCQthfKztFb4fy6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minnesota&#8217;s Artichoke Township and its similarly-named embedded hamlet offered a tantalizing etymological clue buried deep within the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ci0UAAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PA53&amp;ots=dS2i58Sodg&amp;dq=artichoke+township+minnesota+history&amp;pg=PA53&amp;hl=en#v=onepage&amp;q=artichoke%20township%20minnesota%20history&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society<\/a> (Google eBook), 1920, pp 53-54:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Artichoke township whose first settler came in May 1869 received its name from the former Artichoke lake now drained which was five miles long stretching from section 11 south to section 36. This name was probably translated from the Sioux name of the lake referring to the edible tuber roots of a species of sunflower Helianthus tuberosus which was much used by the Indians as food called pangi by the Sioux abundant here and common or frequent throughout this state.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed two things immediately. Somebody refilled Artichoke Lake and I had no idea what Helianthus tuberosus represented. I didn&#8217;t really care about the history of Artichoke Lake so I focused on Helianthus tuberosus. The Intertubes told me that it was a binomial name for the Jerusalem artichoke. Oddly, the plant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omafra.gov.on.ca\/english\/crops\/facts\/94-077.htm\">had nothing to do with Jerusalem and wasn&#8217;t an artichoke<\/a>, according to the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food and numerous other references. That source also labeled it a &#8220;nuisance&#8221; and a &#8220;serious weed problem&#8221; even though Helianthus tuberosus was native to the area. 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