Cabbage – Head of Vegetable Family
The cabbage group includes the common cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, and collard. They are rich in vitamins and minerals and low in calories. People eat cabbage raw or cooked. Cauliflower has a head of tight thick white flowers. Broccoli has bright green loosely clustered flowers. Brussels sprout has many little cabbage-like heads. Kale and kohlrabi have loose leaves that spread outward from a stem.
The history of cabbage began in the prehistoric era, as evidenced by archaeological excavations of Stone Age man’s sites. For a long time people used wild cabbage. Later, as a result of the selection, several varieties of this plant were created, including the head cabbage.
Homer mentioned cabbage in his Iliad nearly 3,000 years ago. Wild cabbage is native to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and also grows on the sea cliffs of Great Britain.
In ancient Rome, cabbage was not only a tasty and healthy food, but also a cure for almost all diseases. Builders of the Great Wall of China ate pickled cabbage back in 200 BC.
In France a popular term for a loved one is petit choux, which means “little cabbage”.
The Lundy cabbage is an herb. Its stems are woody, covered with downward spreading hairs, and have few leaves. Flowers are clustered at the tops of the stems. It is found only on Lundy Island on slopes and sea cliffs.
Cabbage is very useful for your health. It contains bioflavonoids, chlorophyll, indole and phenol that fight free radicals, thus preventing the development of cancer cells and slowing down the aging process. Those who often eat a miracle-vegetable, reduces the risk of cancer of the digestive system and the lungs, breast and prostate. Heated leaves of the plant were used to relieve pain in the joints. And, of course, this vegetable is a real storehouse of vitamin C.
Sauerkraut is the only product of plant origin that contains vitamin B12. Without it normal growth and development of children is impossible. The great navigator James Cook believed that the success of his expeditions depended on the daily portion of sauerkraut, which saved the sailors from scurvy and other dangerous diseases.
In ancient Greece the cabbage was considered a symbol of sobriety. In China, cabbage is considered a symbol of wealth.
Cabbage – Head of Vegetable Family
- Tasty cabbage
- Savoy cabbage
- Pretty cabbage
- Napa cabbage
- Lovely cabbage
- Interesting cabbage
- Colorful cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Bok choy
- Attractive cabbage
Cabbage in art
- Zhukov Nikolai Nikolaevich, 1951
- Yury Shteingarz. Still Life with Vegetables. 2007
- Vincent van Gogh. Still-Life with Cabbage and Clogs. 1881
- Vikentiy Trofimov. Weeding the cabbage. 1930s
- Vaclav Maly. Cabbage Market
- V. Borisenkov. Cabbage. 1958
- Tkachev Sergey Petrovich. The First Snow, 1976
- Theo van Rysselberghe. Among the Cabbages. Private collection
- Savitsky Mikhail Andreevich. Woman with two heads
- Samuel Edwin Whiteman. The Cabbage Patch
- Richard Hunter. Cabbage Patch
- Randolph Caldecott. Girl Working in a Rural Kitchen Garden Collecting Cabbages
- Petr Kolomoytsev. Early vegetables. 1971
- Pavel Kuznetsov. Collecting cabbage
- Oksana Arkhipova. Rustic still life
- Nikolay Tikhonov. Collecting cabbage in collective farm. 1970
- Natalia Nepianova. Peasant Still Life. 2006
- Natalia Nepianova. Autumn work. 2001
- Natalia Marusova, 2009
- Maria Fedorova (Ionova) In the garden. the last quarter of the XIX century
- Kovtonenko. No title. 1963
- Joseph Denovan Adam. Calves in the Cabbage Patch. Glasgow Museums
- John Moran. Cabbage Pickers
- John Lines. Tempting Toms
- John Lines. Cabbage Again
- John Henry Twachtman. The Cabbage Patch
- Johann Georg Seitz. Rabbits and vegetables
- Jan van Os. River Landscape
- James Peale. Still-Life Balsam Apple and Vegetables. 1820-29
- Irina Nyurenberg. In the kitchen
- Henry John Yeend King. Cabbage Gatherer
- Henri de Braekeleer. A Flemish Garden, 1864
- Geza Peske. In the Garden
- George Ernest Smith. Woman with Head of Cabbage
- Fran Hardy. Bislet Cabbage
- Evelyn Dunbar. Sprout Picking. 1947
- Ernst Nowak. In the kitchen
- Ellen Jean Diederich Amish. Cabbage Patch
- E. Phillips Fox. Cabbage Patch
- Charles Willson Peale. Cabbage Patch
- Charles Courtney Curran. The Cabbage Field. 1914
- Carl Duxa. Happy family
- Carl Duxa. Friends
- Camille Pissarro. The Gardener. Old Peasant with Cabbage. 1883-95
- Camille Pissarro. Peasant Woman in a Cabbage Patch
- Camille Pissarro. Cabbage Harvest
- Boris Kustodiev. Vegetables, 1920
- Berezovsky Boris Feoktistovich, 1956
- Arthur Melville. Cabbage Garden. 1877
- Alphonse Gaudefroy. De Retour de la Chasse. 1889
- Alexey and Sergei Tkachev. In September. 1963
- Alexander Chislov. Cabbage. 2009
Cabbage creativity by Ju Duoqi
- Nowa by Ju Duoqi
- My Fair Lady by Ju Duoqi
- Marilyn Monroe by Ju Duoqi
- Loli doll in the Japanese style by Ju Duoqi
- Lady in the Hat by Ju Duoqi
- Coquette Sara by Ju Duoqi
Monuments to cabbage
- Monument to cabbage in Veliky Novgorod, Russia
- Monument to cabbage in Tomsk, Russia
- Monument to cabbage in Kiev, Ukraine
- Monument to cabbage in Kemerovo, Russia
- Monument to cabbage in Indonesia
- Monument of cabbage in Jiangxi Province, China