[Sca-cooks] broccoli and cauliflower

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Cabbage brings out all manner of apocrypha, why not trot out Al Broccoli.
> I've got one source that says brussels sprouts are an invention of the 18th
> Century and another that says they and kohlrabi are referenced in Dodonaeus'
> Cruydeboek of 1554 (which I haven't been able to check out).


Is Kohlrabi the one with the thick fleshy bulb and the cabbagey leaves?
(not fennel, I know what fennel looks like). Because I'm looking at
Gerard's illustation of 'rape-cole' and thinking, I know what this is, why
can't I think of what it is?

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