Rocket or arugula? How a salad vegetable mapped the Italian diaspora

If you watch American cooking shows, you’ve likely experienced “salad confusion.” You see a chef preparing what looks like rocket, but they call it arugula. It’s the same plant (Eruca sativa). It has the same peppery bite. So why do English speakers use two completely different names?

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