brassiness

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Allen says his team take advantage of being in what he calls the "larder of Lancashire", using local produce from strawberries to brassicas.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

I’ve never met a tomato I didn’t unintentionally bruise, but brassicas can take a fair share of jostling on the commute from the store to the car to the rental.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022

Anchovies, sea urchin, skate wing and mussels are featured, and there are also cured meats, cheeses, vegetables like grilled brassicas, and country pork ribs.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

Keegan Clifford grows 13 raised beds worth of vegetables — potatoes, mustard greens, radishes, turnips, various brassicas, kohlrabi, lettuces — in his tiny garden plot in Middletown, Maryland, for himself and five weekly CSA customers.

From Salon • Jan. 20, 2022

“Forget it,” she says, and goes back to her brassicas.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King