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.
Attractive cabbage
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
Bok choy
Cauliflower
Colorful cabbage
Interesting cabbage
Lovely cabbage
Napa cabbage
Pretty cabbage
Savoy cabbage
Tasty cabbage
Cabbage in art
Yury Shteingarz. Still Life with Vegetables. 2007
Zhukov Nikolai Nikolaevich, 1951
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
Coquette Sara by Ju Duoqi
Lady in the Hat by Ju Duoqi
Loli doll in the Japanese style by Ju Duoqi
Marilyn Monroe by Ju Duoqi
My Fair Lady by Ju Duoqi
Nowa by Ju Duoqi
Monuments to cabbage
Monument of cabbage in Jiangxi Province, China
Monument to cabbage in Indonesia
Monument to cabbage in Kemerovo, Russia
Monument to cabbage in Kiev, Ukraine
Monument to cabbage in Tomsk, Russia
Monument to cabbage in Veliky Novgorod, Russia