![]() It’s also cheap, generous and, smells aside, one that fits in. And while it isn’t a please-all, it is certainly a dish to win over cabbage sceptics. The Neapolitan friend who taught me how to make this dish refers to it as a toccasana, a cure-all, and I agree. The slow cooking of the cabbage in butter (which is my non-traditional addition) and oil reduces it almost to a cream, which, having given its scent to the room (and the cup of coffee with vinegar), is softly vegetal and savourythanks to the umami power of a parmesan rind (one of the best seasonings known to soup, as well as a soft, chewy fringe benefit for the cook). Or maybe it is simply that bay and potato made such good additions to a minestra di verza e riso, or virz’e rise, a soothing dish of cabbage with rice and parmesan that is somewhere between a soup and a risotto. Maybe the Neapolitans, the original mangiafoglia (leaf eaters), know this. Ingredients added to the cabbage while cooking can also help: vinegar, milk, bay leaves, potato. A cup of coffee with a tablespoon of vinegar left near the pan a slice of bread soaked with vinegar positioned near the pan is likewise said to soak up unwanted smells a bowl of water with bicarb or half a potato. ![]() ![]() If the smell is a bother, though, there are ways and whole websites dedicated to what Jane Grigson describes as the original sin. And I like the pong as much as the flavour of this great, green vegetable named after a head, especially deep-green savoy, with its blasted leaves and tree-like rib that taste like chlorophyll, iron, mustard and nutty butter. The smell is not alone: the bread shop, the bar dispatching espressos, bins and various degrees of home cooking all compete for airspace. Our building is a cabbage and broccoli bong much of the time the sulphurous scent hanging around the courtyard and communal stairwells like fruit flies around half a melon in high summer. I am exaggerating, of course – but only slightly. It was like meeting a kindred spirit, only made of bricks and cement I fitted right in. But then, in my early 30s, I found myself living in a building that, thanks to a trattoria serving a typically Roman and therefore cruciferous menu, smelled more strongly of cabbage (also of broccoli, chicory and spinach) than I did. Young trauma faded into twentysomething worries about my sulphurous hair, although this didn’t stop me eating the cabbage soup I prescribed myself. As a child, I discovered that liking cabbage carried a risk: that of being called smelly, although this didn’t stop me eating all my school lunch, then offering to finish my friend’s. Not the most charismatic way to start a column, I know, especially the first of the year – happy new year! – but it is the truth, and a significant part of my eating life. ![]() All intellectual property rights are reserved by the providers and/or the exchange providing the data contained in this website.įusion Media may be compensated by the advertisers that appear on the website, based on your interaction with the advertisements or advertisers.T he problem with liking cabbage so much is that I often smell of it. It is prohibited to use, store, reproduce, display, modify, transmit or distribute the data contained in this website without the explicit prior written permission of Fusion Media and/or the data provider. Fusion Media and any provider of the data contained in this website will not accept liability for any loss or damage as a result of your trading, or your reliance on the information contained within this website. The data and prices on the website are not necessarily provided by any market or exchange, but may be provided by market makers, and so prices may not be accurate and may differ from the actual price at any given market, meaning prices are indicative and not appropriate for trading purposes. Trading on margin increases the financial risks.īefore deciding to trade in financial instrument or cryptocurrencies you should be fully informed of the risks and costs associated with trading the financial markets, carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite, and seek professional advice where needed.įusion Media would like to remind you that the data contained in this website is not necessarily real-time nor accurate. Prices of cryptocurrencies are extremely volatile and may be affected by external factors such as financial, regulatory or political events. Risk Disclosure: Trading in financial instruments and/or cryptocurrencies involves high risks including the risk of losing some, or all, of your investment amount, and may not be suitable for all investors.
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