(CNN) -- Adventurous cooks from coast to coast have been delighted to find an elegant, dark green vegetable showing up sporadically in markets under the highbrow name "asparation," or more ...

Via Sakata's California subsidiary, "Asparation" seeds made their way into the Californian soil of a small family-run farm and shipper, Sanbon Inc., for further testing. It failed its heat test ...