0 a period of time in some countries during the early spring when there are not many fresh fruits and vegetables available:
The ground's frozen solid and the hungry gap looms - that period in late winter/early spring when all the land seems to yield is curly kale.
If you live in town, you may know the hungry gap by the fact that it's the fifth week in a row when all you've had in your organic veg delivery box are root vegetables, onions and kale.
We're doing our best to fill the Hungry Gap - that inconvenient lag between the supposed onset of spring and the actual appearance of spring's first bounty.
This is a smooth-leafed green kale, sometimes known as hungry gap kale.
