Vegetables

There are hundreds of vegetables. Some of these are well-known and are exported all around the world. Others are only known and appreciated locally. Some grow in the tropics, others only in temperate climates. Of some vegetables the leaves are eaten, others are grown for their fruits, roots, or stems.

It is not always clear if a plant should be considered a vegetable. Some could just as well be called a fruit (e.g. avocado, tomato), while others could be called a herb or spice (e.g. garlic, chili peppers).

For each vegetable there is a separate page with an introduction, some basic information, a number of photos, and sometimes one or more recipes (main dishes, snacks, salads and other culinary experiments).

As most of the vegetables are not related to each other, they are present here below in a random order (but in the left margin there is an alphabetical list of vegetables). Follow the links or click on the photographs below to learn more about each of these vegetables. Also included are some proverbs amd quotes about vegetables.

Eat more fruits and vegetables because they are an important source of vitamins and minerals and form part of a healthy diet.

Tomato			Cucumber
Hot Chili Peppers			Eggplant (Aubergine)
Avocado			Cauliflower
Indian spinach (Malabar spinach)			Olive
Okra (Lady's finger)

More vegetables coming soon!

Proverbs and Quotes

• A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. (Gertrude Stein)
• Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.
• As the garden grows so does the gardener.
• Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. (William Blake)
• It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. (Lewis Grizzard)
• An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. (Will Rogers)
• This cabbage, these carrots, these potatoes, these onions ... will soon become me. Such a tasty fact! (Mike Garofalo)
• It's no use boiling your cabbage twice.
• Better to eat vegetables and fear no creditors, than eat duck and hide from them.
• Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.
• Cabbage: A vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. (Ambrose Bierce)

Sorry, some vegetable pages are not ready yetPlease come back soon. In the meantime see Tropical Fruits