Broccoli

[davegorman]

Is Broccoli a natural vegetable or was it invented by someone called broccoli?

[WendyW]

According to http://www.backyardgardener.com/veg/broccoli.html

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It is believed that braccoli was known to the Romans at the time of Pliny, but references to this vegetable group it with cauliflower. The first notice of broccoli as such was make in 1724 by an English writer who called it "sprout colliclower or Italian asparagus." In 1729 another English gardener reported that there were several kinds that he had been growing in London for two years; "that with small, whitish-yellow flowers like the cauliflower; others like the common sprouts and flowers of a colewart; and thrid with purple flowers; all of which come mixed together."

[incitatus]

also what do you mean by natural vegetable? we dont eat any that havent been intensively bred and altered unless you eat wild plants....

[davegorman]

well actually i do!!!! So I haven't phrased it very well - you know what i mean.