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My new favourite vegetable is the yellow turnip or rutabaga, swede (from Swedish turnip). It is a root vegetable that originated as a cross between the cabbage and the turnip. The first known printed reference to the rutabaga comes from the Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin in 1620, where he notes that it was growing wild in Sweden. It is often considered to have originated from Scandinavia or Russia. Finns cook rutabagas in a variety of ways; roasted to be served with meat dishes, as the major ingr (...)