Fiddleheads

The other night, I had the opportunity to sample a traditional Maine vegetable: the fiddlehead. Basically, it's a baby fern. But where eating baby cows gets you called cruel and inhuman, there's no such stigma against eating baby ferns. Mainers go out and pick these little things by the bagful, then steam 'em, sautee 'em, boil 'em, salt 'em--you name it. Sort of like the many uses of shrimp in Forrest Gump, but without the gumbo. Denisa tried sauteing them. How did they turn out? Well, TRC th...