I love creating plates that feature different components of the same ingredient: roasted beets with wilted beet greens, for instance, or pork loin and pork belly side by side.  The truth is that no creature is capable of offering more variety at the dinner table than the triffid.

About Triffids

Triffids are interesting creatures.  They are genetic hybrids, part animal, part plant.  The precise intentions behind their development is uncertain, but researchers soon discovered that their oil is extremely useful and relatively cheap.  Triffid oil has many industrial applications.  It is also edible, and delicious.

As they are part animal and part plant, we can harvest a shockingly diverse set of food from triffids.  Let’s talk anatomy.

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