Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
pousses de poireaux
English translation:
leek sprouts
French term
French and Spanish to English in NYC
Native in: English 
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pousses de poireaux
I have found "leek shoots" but I have never heard of them...
Thanks!
| 3 +11 | baby leeks |
Claire Cox
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| 5 +6 | leek shoot |
Trinh Do
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| 4 | leek sprouts |
Zurbaran
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baby leeks
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Note added at 7 mins (2009-04-01 13:36:02 GMT)
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Just found this website:
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pages/sprout.htm
which suggests that leek sprouts are used in salads to give leak-flavoured "sprouts" - like you, I'd never heard of them before, but I don't see why not....
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Note added at 8 mins (2009-04-01 13:36:40 GMT)
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Sorry leek-flavoured, not leak!
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cmwilliams (X)
: leek sprouts
8 mins
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Sheila Wilson
: I think sprouts works better than baby, which would still be a lot bigger
14 mins
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Jean-Louis S.
18 mins
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Carol Gullidge
: leek sprouts
23 mins
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Colin Morley (X)
: Like spring onions, but you can't really say spring leeks, so baby leeks.
35 mins
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John ANTHONY
: Defintely sprouts...
48 mins
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Jeanette Phillips
2 hrs
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Miranda Joubioux (X)
: Baby leeks - lots of examples out there. http://www.seafish.org/2aweek/recipes/detail.asp?newsid=136
2 hrs
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Rachel Fell
: leek sprouts - http://sumawholesale.com/index.php/chilled/salads-sprouts-ch...
3 hrs
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Cervin
: baby leeks are what supermarkets call them
4 hrs
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Anne McConnell
: I don't think that the term "sprouts" is possible for plants of the onion family.
6 hrs
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leek shoot
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Note added at 6 mins (2009-04-01 13:34:55 GMT)
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Should be 'shoots'.
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Note added at 13 mins (2009-04-01 13:42:12 GMT)
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Yes, 'sprouts' sound best as they are the 'shoots' springing up from the seeds. I can't imagine I forgot this when I use this every day, feeding sprouts to my birds.
It also issues leek shoots quotation to attract buyers from adjacent regions, and even from Hong Kong and Macao. The effort has allowed the leek shoots being sold at a profitable price, in addition to a boomed sale.
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NancyLynn
30 mins
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cjohnstone
32 mins
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Valerie SYKES
: http://www.mymelange.net/mymelange/2009/03/potato-and-leek-s...
53 mins
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emiledgar
: Shoots!!! hqs to be pluriel
4 hrs
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Yolanda Broad
5 hrs
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Mark Nathan
1 day 18 hrs
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leek sprouts
"baby" can be deceptive, because sometimes it refers to the young plant, but sometimes it refers to a specific "dwarf" species, and in this case it might be understood this way because "dwar leeks" do exist.
So the choice is between leek sprouts and leek shoots, and he definitely recommends the first. Also, just check what you find when you google leek sprouts and leek shoots : almost five times as many results for the first query than for the second, and the pictures seem to be very relevant too, so all in all I would recommend : Leek sprouts.
Discussion
http://shizuokagourmet.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/vegetables-f...
What do you think?
http://www.unesco-ci.org/ifapstories/files/5/15-%26%2325104
Might there be a more common English term?