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A while back I bought a book at a thrift store called MAGIC IN HERBS. Published in 1953 it’s mostly about, well, herbs, but contains a chapter entitled “And, Oh, the Vegetables!” Each section introduces a vegetable & begins with the best sentence ever written about that vegetable
String beans: “String beans are the most misunderstood and tormented of vegetables.” (This is gonna be a delightful thread)
Cabbages: “The cabbages are the best and tastiest vegetables if only rightly interpreted.” (Hard agree!)
Cauliflower: “Cauliflower is often mistreated, cooked from all its virginal glory to a grayish-looking, soft, mushy thing, its youthfulness ruined.”
Spinach: “Spinach is eaten mostly with a respectful shudder.”
Eggplant: “There is a strange change which the beautiful eggplant undergoes without its purple coat: it becomes a helpless looking affair and very few people know what to do with it.” (TRUE)
Turnips: “There is the very humble turnip, so strangely attired, so demure looking but with a flavor quite its own.”
And finally, it ends with potatoes: “Then there are potatoes.” FIN. (Poor potatoes)
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