From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom : The Salt : NPR ๐Ÿ”— ๐Ÿฝ ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿงช ๐ŸŽง

โ€˜Foods go in and out of style. Few of them, though, have gone through as dramatic a renaissance in their reputation as Brussels sprouts. For many years, they were scorned. Even Steve Bontadelli admits it, and he makes his living growing them. “A lot of people of my generation hated them,” he says. “Their moms boiled them and made them even stinkier.“โ€™

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