Mellow yellow

It's that time of year when fields across Britain glow dandelion-yellow with rapeseed, the fragrant and familiar crop that is an irritant to hay fever sufferers and farmers alike. What was once grown merely as a "break" crop ? used to suppress weeds and improve soil quality in fallow times, and fit only for animal feed ? is now gaining a certain culinary respectability.

Brassica napus Linnaeus?known as rapeseed, rape, oilseed rape, and in some cultivars, Canola?is a bright yellow flowering member of the Brassicacea family (mustard or cabbage family). It is a mustard crop grown primarily for its seed which yields about forty percent oil and a high-protein animal feed