{"id":5772,"date":"2012-05-18T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2012-09-25T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T21:45:14","slug":"california-is-artichoke-capital-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-is-artichoke-capital-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"California is Artichoke Center of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If artichokes weren’t so unique, so tasty, and so healthy, you’d never hear of Castroville, the Artichoke Capital and Artichoke Center of the World, where nearly 75% of U.S. artichokes are grown–California grows 100% of artichokes in the U.S. Shown in photos are a field of artichokes (left) and the Giant Artichoke Cafe where they’re served deep-fried & delicious.<\/p>\n

From the World’s Largest Artichoke to the Artichoke Festival<\/a> this weekend, Monterey County is home to a fascinating and delicious world of artichokes<\/a>. Throughout the year you can taste and (seasonally) purchase artichokes in the little city of Castroville where they come direct from farm to table. Castroville is a farm town with maybe one hotel, but makes a great road stop when you visit Carmel, Monterey or Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If artichokes weren’t so unique, so tasty, and so healthy, you’d never hear of Castroville, the Artichoke Capital and Artichoke Center of the World, where nearly 75% of U.S. artichokes are grown–California grows 100% of artichokes in the U.S. Shown in photos are a field of artichokes (left) and the Giant Artichoke Cafe where they’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}