http://www.marketmanila.com A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:04:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/eggplants-get-it http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/eggplants-get-it#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:08:08 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=8539 Because they look like eggs. Hence, eggplant. :) For 30 years or so, I only knew of purple eggplants, and only one or two varieties of purple at that. Having taken but never learned much of the French language, I always thought "aubergine" was a really nice name for them, and the color aubergine or purple of sorts, made sense. But about 15 years ago, I saw my first "real" eggplant, a variety that quite literally looked like a large ivory white egg. ]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/eggplants-get-it/feed 32