POKE SALLET / SALLIT / SALAD - a dish that shows up in indigenous, african american, appalachian, and rural southern culture using pokeweed, phytolacca americana. Poisonous when raw, but thankfully its toxic components are water soluble and/or heat sensitive! I always loved the pokeweed plants in my Grammy and Grandad’s backyard, and once in passing they mentioned a dish from their younger years using the early shoots before they wete too dangerous to eat. It took until ny 20’s, after their pass

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