The origin of artichokes and artichokes alla giudia is distant, people begin to talk about this vegetable around 1500, various ways of preparing them can be found in the cookbooks of the time and probably if our dear Caterina de’ Medici who always comes to help thanks to her famous appetite, she was greedy for artichokes and ate them until she felt sick, so that a chronicler of the time talked about who told of Caterina’s formidable appetite and artichokes.