sunchoke soup recipe

Included in this week's Creative loafing Food Issue 2008, which features Besha Rodell's week long, all-Georgia diet, is David's recipe for velvety, redolent Leek and Sunchoke Soup. A sunchoke (also known as a jerusalem artichoke) is the root of the sunflower and looks kind of like ginger. Native to North America, it has lots of iron and a fair amount of vitamin c and potassium. The sunchoke is not a starch but a carbohydrate called inulin, which is a probiotic and great for the digestive system (though, for some, inulin causes a wee bit of gas.)