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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.

Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.

When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.

Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.

This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.