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- "Even somethin' as ordinary as a rootleaf can be transformed into a feast if you cook it up right. Few folks realize you can roast an entire head of the stuff and carve it just like a hunk of roast shaak. It's got all the potent flavor of my Rootleaf Stew recipe, and it's only about half as pungent!"
- ―Strono Tuggs, The Life Day Cookbook
Rootleaf was a type of vegetable with a light green head of leaves that was used as a common ingredient in cooking. Dishes that used rootleaf included rootleaf stew and Roasted Rootleaf.[2] In 3 ABY,[3] the exiled Jedi Yoda prepared a rootleaf stew in his hut on the planet Dagobah and ate it with the human Jedi-in-training Luke Skywalker.[1] The Artiodac chef Strono Tuggs included a recipe for a pungent rootleaf stew in his first cookbook, The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook,[4] in 34 ABY,[5] and a recipe for Roasted Rootleaf in his second cookbook, The Life Day Cookbook.[2]
Appearances
- Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back (First appearance)
- The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi? (and audiobook) (First identified as root-leaf)
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization
- "Size Matters Not" — The Original Trilogy Stories (and audiobook)
- Bounty Hunters 6
- Return of the Jedi: Beware the Power of the Dark Side! (and audiobook) (Indirect mention only)
- "The Light That Falls" — From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (and audiobook)
Star Wars Galaxy of Creatures — "Wampa"- "The Whills Strike Back" — From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back (and audiobook) (Mentioned only)
Non-canon appearances
Sources
- Star Wars: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know
- Star Wars: Complete Locations
- Yoda's Root Leaf Stew on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
- Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook
- Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook
- Star Wars 100 Objects
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook
- ↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, which includes Yoda making rootleaf stew, to 3 ABY.
- ↑ Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook
- ↑ Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge: The Official Black Spire Outpost Cookbook establishes that the in-universe book was published at the same time as when the First Order was searching for the Resistance base on Batuu, which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 34 ABY.