The Rhode Island-based chef, who joined the Harvard Square restaurant Parsnip in March ... Filipino heritage prompted him to move to the Philippines and train with the Philippine Basketball ...

A parsnip is like a pasty-faced, overweight carrot, ancient and unrefined. The difference is hardly one of pedigree: The carrot began as the skinny white root of the Queen Anne's lace plant ...

Low-key and pale (not unlike myself, come wintertime), the parsnip would never presume to inspire the cult-like excitement that folks feel towards, say, ramps, or heirloom tomatoes. But confusing ...