Originally, cremini mushrooms were cultivated in the catacombs beneath Paris as they provided the right environmental conditions for the growth of them.
Looking for a challenge this Long Weekend? Try to break this record, LOL! In 1984, Janet Harris broke a Guinness World Record by consuming 7,175 peas in 60 minutes using chopsticks. In 1969, peas were the subject of the first ever broadcast-ed colour commercial.
Not a fan of the way cauliflower smells when you boil it? Try adding celery seeds or celery leaves to the water. It’s a simple way to cut down the smell.
Broccoli is a large edible flower. If the broccoli plant were left in the ground, the floret would continue to mature and become a beautiful head of yellow flowers before developing into seeds.
The use of beans has been so ingrained in our culture that there are even a few expressions in English that incorporate them: spill the beans, skinny as a string bean and full of beans to name a few.
Not all garlic produces a scape - only what’s known as hard-neck garlic, which is more likely to be grown by smaller farmers, and less likely to be found in a grocery store.
