When Emma Bengtsson was growing up in Sweden, in a small town on the west coast, she would snack on radishes, raw with a dab of house-made butter and a sprinkle of salt. Although she grew up in a family that greatly appreciated the culinary arts, radishes simply didn’t get cooked.
“We first grew the French breakfast radish,” Farmer Lee recalls, “and it’s named that because it’s so mild that it can be eaten for breakfast. In fact, in France, people enjoy one nice bite of deliciousness by putting a dollop of butter and a bit of salt on one of these radishes. You can do the same thing with the cherry bomb radish, too, because it’s a wonderful bite-sized morsel.”