The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

BROCCOLI

Broccoli is an Italian late variety of the cauliflower, hardier and with more colour in the flower and leaves. The flower-stalks are eaten. It was recognised as a distinct garden variety in Britain at the end of the 17th century. At the start of the 20th century broccoli as a food stuff was frowned upon, and one writer in 1906 described it thus: 'Broccoli is inferior in flavour to cauliflower, but serves as a substitute for it when the latter cannot be obtained'.
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