A Love Letter To Cabbage

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Abra Berens is a Midwest born-and-bred farmer-turned-chef. And her cookbook, Ruffage, is a gorgeous A-to-Z guide to vegetables.

The idea, she tells us, is this: You go to the grocery store, buy what inspires you and then you go home to look up meal ideas in her cookbook.

Abra’s not a pretentious chef who poo-poos comfort food. Instead, she’s all about meeting people where they are (and encouraging you to enjoy your veggies).

She talks with Greta about how she approaches cooking, why her book is called “Ruffage” and why cabbage is her favorite vegetable. (Weird, right?)

Transcript

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0:33.4	So, is cabbage really your favorite vegetable?
0:34.5	It is.
0:36.2	I mean, it's funny because people ask me that. and it is. Really, though? I love red cabbage.
0:41.3	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad. I'm Greta Johnson, and that was Abra Barron's. She's a farmer and a chef, and she recently made this amazing new cookbook called Roughage.
0:51.8	It was listed as one of the best spring cookbooks by both
0:54.8	the New York Times and Bon Appetit, and it is gorgeous. The whole idea is that you could go to your
1:00.4	farmer's market or the grocery store or whatever and just like see what looks great. And even if
1:05.5	you have no idea what to do with that like colerabi or whatever it might be, you can take it home, look it up in this book and get a bunch of great ideas for what to do with that like col rabbi or whatever it might be you can take it home look it up in
1:11.7	this book and get a bunch of great ideas for what to do so we're going to talk to her about the cookbook
1:26.2	and her inspiration.
1:31.0	And, of course, she will explain her obsession with cabbage.
1:35.0	It's the most utilized vegetable.
1:37.4	So I feel like that makes it my favorite.
1:39.7	I also just love I will buy one.
1:42.3	And sometimes it stays in my fridge for like a week or two weeks. And it's just fine.
1:43.3	And it's just hanging out and it's ready to, conscripted into service when it needs me.
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