Chef's Table: Hangovers, Cabbages & Kings By Jim Coleman with Candace Hagan
When prehistoric meal planners gathered vegetables for their families, cabbage was one of their top choices. It grew wild in all European
coastal areas and was a dependable source of nutrition on the Neolithic
menu. Humble, to be sure, but popular just the same. Even the
ultra-civilized Greeks found it an item worth foraging for, and in a
treatise on plants, Eudemus from Athens was the first to glorify the
vegetable in print.
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When prehistoric meal planners gathered vegetables for their families, cabbage was one of their top choices. It grew wild in all European
coastal areas and was a dependable source of nutrition on the Neolithic
menu. Humble, to be sure, but popular just the same. Even the
ultra-civilized Greeks found it an item worth foraging for, and in a
treatise on plants, Eudemus from Athens was the first to glorify the
vegetable in print.
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