google translate seems to fail...suggesting a sugar loaf or something?
any body knows if it has english name? is it mainly european herb?
is it also called meat cabbage ?

Don't think so, no - its a type of chicory but is mainly only eaten here and in Austria, so it doesn't translate

I think it's called 'winter chicory' ???

is it also called Fleischkraut ?
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleischkraut#Verwendung
is it eaten normally with meat ?

It looks like Chinese leaves/cabbage, or chou chinois in French.

Or Cos lettuce in English, and laitue, in French. It is eaten as a salad in the UK, but in Switzerland it is usually braised (cooked with very little water) and eaten with meat as a veg, but it cooks down to nothing, so one would serve 1 or 2 people max.

For a future search this website covers just about every spice and herb,

http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/index.html ... unfortunately Zuckerhut is not a herb, I think we call it Chinese cabbage.

No - Chinese cabbage (things like bok choi and pak choi) are a different family to Zuckerhut, its not the same thing.....although "Chinese cabbage" is used very widely for lots of stuff!

Yes, it's the same.

Fleischkraut translates to winter chicory on pons.de
Blattzichorie (suggested as as alternative to fleishkraut) translates to leafy chicory.
I guess the zuckerhut comes from similarity to a cone of sugar (zucker hut) that you light in a drink or something....

There is a sugar loaf chicory, so I guess that's what it is.

It looks like a Chinese cabbage but it's not. It's in the endive and radicchio family. I'm guessing it's bitter. Please don't serve it to me for dinner!

Used to get these occasionally in the farm veggie bag that I had delivered when I was in Neuchâtel. They called them "pain de sucre" in the letter that came with the bag.

And yes, it is bitter !

Zuckerhut - also known as Fleischkraut and Herbstchicorée (autumn chicory) - has a latin plant name of Cichorium intybus var. foliosum, and is a member of the chicory genus.

The name zuckerhut does in fact translate and mean sugar loaf, but this is in relation to the shape, and not the taste - as in Sugar Loaf Mountain, R.d.J., Br.

Cross-referencing different sources of reference and languages, it is difficult to get a definitive English equivalent, but it appears it can be an autumn or winter chicory/endive, or a romaine lettuce (cos) - as previously suggested.

It is slightly bitter when eaten raw, or can be quickly blanched.