How to eat: sprouts

This month, in a seasonal special, How to Eat is mulling sprouts. Should you eat them naked? Do they work in pasta bakes? And is there any excuse for sweetening them with fruit or drowning them in stilton?

How to Eat – the series identifying the best way to eat Britain’s favourite foods – is perennially baffled by the division brussels sprouts provoke. When you consider the criminal acts that occur on the Christmas table – bone-dry, taste-void turkey; the medieval torture that is bread sauce; bitumen-like gravy; juvenile cranberry jelly; powdery husks of roast potato – how is it this member of the Brassicaceae family gets so much heat?

Sprouts have been cancelled by Gen Z and rank among Britain’s top 5 most hated foods. As a nation, we should be ashamed of ourselves. Again. Add it to Britain’s list.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3sfrhU4