Broccoli is a cold season crop of the cabbage family. This wonder veggie has a lot of fleshly flower heads, usually colored green, which look like little trees. Broccoli looks just like cauliflower, except that it’s green rather than white. It grows 11/2 to 21/2 feet tall.
The word “broccoli” comes from the Latin word “brachium”, which means “branch” or “arm”. The earliest written account of this Italian vegetable (which wasn’t called broccoli yet then) was in the time of Romans. It was called “Italian asparagus”. Italian immigrants brought broccoli commercially to North America by 1806, but it only gained popularity in the 1920’s. Today, broccoli is cultivated in many countries worldwide.
There are three commonly grown types of broccoli: Calabrese broccoli, Sprouting broccoli and Romanesco broccoli. The Calabrese type is the more popular one because of its large green heads about 10-20 cm in diameter, and thick stalks. It got its name from Calabria in Italy where it was first cultivated. The Calabrese broccoli is a cool season annual crop.
Sprouting broccoli has a larger number of heads with many thin stalks – not the type that comes first to mind exactly.
Romanesco broccoli, on the other hand, is quite a unique type of broccoli. It has a fractal appearance because of its many heads, meaning it follows fragmented geometric shape (which can be split into parts, each being a reduced-size copy of the whole). Romanesco broccoli looks more like an ornamental flower than a vegetable.
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