crosne

The crosne plant looks like mint, but its leaves have no flavor.

A relative of the mint family, the crosne was brought from China to France in the late 19th century.

Crosne may mean:

Inhabitants of Crosne are known as Crosnois.

Also appropriate for the season, honey-glossed juicy breast of duck came with baby brussels sprouts and crosne ("crones" on the menu), similar to Jerusalem artichoke.

The surname "Despréaux" was derived from a small property at Crosne near Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.

Mr. Weaver, who offers seeds for heirloom vegetables through the Seed Savers Exchange, has been showered with requests for the crosne during the last year.

Pierre Brûlart, lord of Genlis and Crosne (c. 1535 - April 12, 1608) was a French statesman of the sixteenth century.

Montgeron is served by Montgeron - Crosne station on Paris RER line D.

He was the son of Noel Brulart, Lord of Crosne 1557 and Isabeau Bourdin, lady Chapet (1589).

In 1579 the lord of Crosne, Pierre Brulard, purchased the land of Abbécourt from the Lord of Genlis.

But the crosne (pronounced CRONE), which tastes nutty and sweet like a Jerusalem artichoke and snaps between your teeth like a water chestnut, will soon find out.

Stachys affinis, the Chinese artichoke, chorogi, knotroot, artichoke betony, or crosne, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Lamiaceae.

Louis Thiroux de Crosne was Lieutenant général de Police, the Chief of the Police, in Paris from 1785 to the beginning of the French Revolution.

It crosses the river Marne at Charenton-le-Pont, and follows the right Seine bank upstream until Crosne, where it follows a course east of the Forest of Sénart.

He became a lawyer at the Parlement of Normandy, and in 1783 he joined the office of the Intendant Général of Rouen, Louis Thiroux de Crosne.

A large pheasant wing, stuffed with wild mushrooms, liver and coriander, was posed on a bed of trompettes de la mort mushrooms and garnished with such "forgotten vegetables" as the tiny, knobby tuber called crosne.

His successor, Thiroux de Crosne, chose a place to the south of Paris's "porte d'Enfer" city gate (the place Denfert-Rochereau today), and the exhumation and transfer of all Paris's dead to the underground sepulture began in 1786, taking until 1788 to complete.

More obscurely known as knotroot, chorogi or stachys affinis, and more commonly referred to as Chinese or Japanese artichokes, crosnes derive their name from Crosne, a town south of Paris where they were planted in 1882 by an agronomist who had brought them from Japan.

Sieyès soon retired from the post of provisional Consul, which he had accepted after Brumaire, and became one of the first members of the Sénat conservateur (acting as its president in 1799); this concession was attributed to the large estate at Crosne that he received from Napoleon.