Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers. It's not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it's food for the soul.
Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges.
One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: 'What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?'
My mum used to tell me to never boil my cabbages twice, and I think it's artistically valid. While I do find myself on similar themes in my books, I try not to repeat myself, and that's something which is all too easy to do in series books.
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.
I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.
If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Listen to me: Leek is a vegetable. It can be the center of a dish.