It’s not our imagination. Rhubarb really is everywhere this year. After years of seeing its bright stalks shunned except in pre-digested pie form, this year every household seems to be trying rhubarb compote or cake or even pork ribs. (Hmm. Dana Cree of Poppy, @deensie, is behind two of those three recipes. How much of the rhubarb craze can we backtrack straight to her stove?) Now Allrecipes, in its latest data report, has a handy chart of how searches for fruits and vegetables have changed month to month over the past year. Of course, May and June are prime for rhubarb — and the 2009 rhubarb searches on the site, even adjusted for increased site traffic, are up 44 percent over 2008.

Here’s the chart, courtesy of Allrecipes — click on it to see the full-sized image. Peas are down, by the way, and blackberries are also seriously up.

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