Paul Hollywood

When my career in hotels was taking off in the Nineties, I went to work as a head baker in Cyprus, where I was making Danish pastries every day. I can remember that the head chef was always on my back to put more seasonal fruits in with the creme patissiere. I'd even make them with rhubarb.

English Chef

Johnny Iuzzini

I love pies of all types. I especially love rhubarb. I grew up with rhubarb growing on our property, and my mom would make rhubarb pies and jam. I have to admit, though, my earliest memories of rhubarb were not fond ones, but over time, I grew to love it.

American Chef

Groucho Marx

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

American Comedian

Diego Klattenhoff

I got two older brothers and two younger sisters, and we grew up in the country, and we were a little feral. So as long as the car didn't end up in the rhubarb and you didn't get caught for doing whatever you were doing, you were fine.

Canadian Actor

Bill Dedman

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

American Journalist

Sebastian Faulks

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

British Novelist

Hugh Dennis

We had an enormous rhubarb patch at home and my mother forced me to eat that stuff without any sugar for most of my childhood.

Rhubarb is known for its edible stalks, which contrast its large, inedible leaves.

Edible Stalks

Rhubarb has a strong tart taste, often sweetened in recipes.

Tart Flavor

Rhubarb is a seasonal plant, associated with spring and early summer recipes.

Seasonal Ingredient

Using 'rhubarb' to describe an argument is informal and reflects a light-hearted tone.

Informal Conflict

The dispute meaning of 'rhubarb' is mostly used in North American English.

North American Slang

Use 'rhubarb' to describe arguments in casual or less serious contexts.

Casual Settings

On stage, actors use 'rhubarb' to create a realistic sound atmosphere without words.

Stage Background Noise

'Rhubarb' in this context means random murmuring, not coherent dialogue.

Not Actual Words

The term is used to simulate the murmur of crowds in plays and films.

Simulate Crowds

 You might as well be on the moon. You know you are way above tree line Nothing grows except grass and two tiny things in summer for about a month-month and a half. You will get rhubarb and white onions. If you are vegetarian, it will be a slow death. And so grass feeds the animal,

We Are What We Eat:...

 Foods like potato chips, spinach, rhubarb, and beets are high in oxalate, so doctors might advise limiting them. Even though calcium is often found in stones, calcium in foods and beverages can actually help

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 a tedious obsession with my personal business you know matters of the fur boudoir rhubarb i've said too much it's a private matter

Rhubarb

Edible Stalks

Tart Flavor

Seasonal Ingredient

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