The long green eggplant is the find of the Asian grocery. Silky, creamy and easy to cook, it’s enough to convert even the staunchest sceptic
I’m a little miffed that the only eggplant emoji is purple. I guess it’s understandable as Japan is where emojis originated, and they don’t have long green eggplants over there. I won’t even go into what the kids are using purple eggplant emoji for these days.
Moving on, there are only two cultivated varieties of long green eggplants – the Louisiana Green is banana shaped, but the Thai long green silken is in my humble opinion peerless in all the Solanum melongena realm.
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