Last week, $6 bottles of “Asparagus Water” went viral after Whole Foods customer Marielle Wakim Instagrammed a picture of the beverage to her followers.
Whole Foods was quick to shut down the scandal. Senior Media Relations Specialist Liz Burkhart told Eater that the water was only being carried in one store in California and that it “was meant to be water with the essence of vegetables and/or mushrooms to be used as broth.”
She claimed that the product was "made incorrectly" as it was meant to be soaked in water for a long period of time, and that Whole Foods had removed it from the store. We've never heard of asparagus broth. But Martha Stewart is apparently a fan, and her recipe dovetails with Burkhart's instructions (aside from the simmering).
I was still curious as to how asparagus water would taste, though — at least one or two people at that California Whole Foods must have bought it for that purpose, after all. So I decided to make it myself.