By Madeleine Kolb
Vegetables are good for us. Everyone says so: Mom, the doctor, even the government. They’re jam-packed with nutrients, such as vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, folic acid, and potassium. And as if that were not enough, they have generous amounts of fiber (and we all know how important that is).
There’s only one problem though: Lots of people hate vegetables. When they see a pile of overcooked green beans on a plate, it brings back horrible memories of dreary lunches served up in the school cafeteria by hefty ladies wearing hair-nets. Sometimes, the vegetable du jour was peas from giant cans, stored in a government warehouse since the early days of the Reagan administration.
Not that it was any better at home. (more…)