note (from the terpene limonene) that’s especially prominent in the sparse foliage Fennel is eaten both raw, thinly sliced and crunchy, and cooked, often braised or in a gratin Asparagus Aromatics Not only can people differ in their ability to detect the product of asparagus metabolism, those who can detect it differ in their assessment [Asparagus] cause a filthy and disagreeable smell in the urine, as everybody knows — Louis Lemery, Treatise of All Sorts of Foods, 1702 …all night long after a dinner at which I had partaken of [asparagus], they played (lyrical and coarse in their jesting as the fairies in Shakespeare’s Dream) at transforming my chamber pot into a vase of aromatic perfume — Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, 1913 The Cabbage Family: Kohlrabi and Rutabaga Kohlrabi Kohlrabi is a version of the basic cabbage plant (Brassica oleracea var gongylodes) in which the main stem swells to several inches in diameter It has the moist texture and mild flavor of broccoli stalk The name comes from the German for “cabbage turnip,” and indeed kohlrabi resembles a turnip in its rounded appearance Young kohlrabi are tender enough to eat raw for their crisp moistness or cook briefly; overmature stems are woody Rutabaga The rutabaga, or swede, is the result of a cross between the turnip and cabbage species, and is thought to have been born sometime before 1600 in Eastern Europe, ...— Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, 1913 The Cabbage Family: Kohlrabi and Rutabaga Kohlrabi Kohlrabi is a version of the basic cabbage plant (Brassica oleracea var gongylodes) in which the main stem swells to... kohlrabi are tender enough to eat raw for their crisp moistness or cook briefly; overmature stems are woody Rutabaga The rutabaga, or swede, is the result of a cross between the turnip and cabbage species, and is thought... gongylodes) in which the main stem swells to several inches in diameter It has the moist texture and mild flavor of broccoli stalk The name comes from the German for “cabbage turnip,” and indeed kohlrabi resembles a turnip in its rounded appearance