ENDIVE

Cichorium Endivia: a salad plant of the Chicory family and closely allied to the dandelion, originally brought from China to Europe in the sixteenth century. The two principal types under cultivation are those known to gardeners as “Curly Endive,” with narrow, feathery leaves, and “Broad-leafed” or “Batavian” Endive, with leaves large and rather broad, generally twisted and waved and with thick white midribs. In Eastern markets, Curly Endive and other small leafed varieties are generally known as Chicory (which see) because of their resemblance to Common Chicory, and Broad-leafed Endive by the French title of Escarole. The title Endive is reserved for the winter-grown heads of the Witloof or Bru els Chicory, a sub-variety of the “ Escarole ” [s. 235]