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Broccoli Basics
We are eating 900% more broccoli than we did 20 years ago.
In 1970, consumption of broccoli was only a half a pound per person. Today, the average person in the United States eats four and one half pounds a year.
In the United States, broccoli was probably first grown by immigrants from Italy in home gardens in Brooklyn, New York. In 1923, a group of Italian vegetable farmers in Northern California started to grow broccoli commercially and in a few years they were shipping fresh broccoli to Boston and New York.
Pick a Pepper
The most popular sweet pepper in the United States is the bell pepper.
Most peppers belong to the Capsicum annuum species.
As bell peppers mature, their color changes from green to red and they become sweeter.