vegetable, n.Definitions

The Vegetable is not food. It's what food eats.

A Vegetable grows in the ground but is not dirt cheap.

The Vegetable is interesting but it lacks a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

The Vegetable is the food of the earth. Fruit is more the food of the heavens.

The Vegetable is vital to health — The produce manager is more important to one's children's health than the pediatrician.

A Vegetable is a substance used to ballast a child’s plate while it’s carried to and from the table.

The Vegetable is much more approachable to kids as a food if they grow them themselves. If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them.

The Vegetable is exciting in cooking, because they continue to change. They come into season and they go through different phases.