Jerusalem artichokes are the star of the winter garden

For me, one of the haute cuisine highlights of the winter garden has to be cooking and eating the crop of Jerusalem artichokes, says Kitty Scully.

Despite the title, they are not artichokes and they don’t come from Jerusalem.

These small knobbly tubers with their distinctively sweet, nutty flavour are a member of the sunflower family and they were first cultivated by Native Americans, but as most people who have ever grown them might agree, they don’t need much cultivation.