Vegetables? No Such Thing!

Would you believe me if I told you vegetables don’t exist?

Think about it. Everything that you know as a vegetable is actually something else. Lettuce is a leaf. A carrot is a root. Brussels sprouts are, well, sprouts. And cauliflower … you get the picture.

Now, why would someone create an entire category of food? Could it be to sell you more food? The restaurant industry has been forced down some sneaky avenues in the past, and one of them led to a term for “the things on the plate that aren’t meat.” Hence, vegetables were born out of pure culinary imagination to fill a void no one noticed anyway. 

Another reason not to trust a chef.