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From: "Ingrid Bauer/Jean-Claude Catry"
> it is not a very edible plant to start with.

I had never even heard of rape until I moved here almost 23 yrs ago.  I know
some people who grow sizable plots of it for the greens.  And probably there
are a lot more people around here who do, too, since the seed can be bought
locally.  I've never grown or eaten it and am not sure about cooking, but
maybe they cook it like poke by parboiling first to get rid of the toxins.
(Though I'm not assured that toxins are fully removed this way.)  I'll have
to remember to ask them.

Theola  in Central Arkansas