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title: "2 Cabbage Quotes By Jane Grigson"
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> [Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-grigson/cabbage-as-a-food-has-problems-it-is-easy-to-grow-a-useful-source-of/)

[Jane Grigson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-grigson/)

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> [This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal… We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-grigson/this-special-feeling-towards-fruit-its-glory-and-abundance-is-i-would/)

[Jane Grigson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-grigson/)

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## More by Jane Grigson

> [“This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a banana.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-grigson/this-is-perhaps-what-has-made-some-suspect-that-the-tree-of-knowledge/)

[Jane Grigson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-grigson/)

> [The apple was the first fruit of the world according to Genesis, but it was no Cox's Orange Pippin. God gave the crab apple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-grigson/the-apple-was-the-first-fruit-of-the-world-according-to-genesis-but/)

[Jane Grigson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-grigson/)

> [Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-grigson/shape-is-a-good-part-of-the-fig-s-delight/)

[Jane Grigson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-grigson/)

> [Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-grigson/cabbage-as-a-food-has-problems-it-is-easy-to-grow-a-useful-source-of/)

[Jane Grigson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-grigson/)

> [In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-grigson/in-my-experience-clever-food-is-not-appreciated-at-christmas-it-makes/)

[Jane Grigson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-grigson/)

> [This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal… We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-grigson/this-special-feeling-towards-fruit-its-glory-and-abundance-is-i-would/)

[Jane Grigson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-grigson/)

> [A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-grigson/a-number-of-rare-or-newly-experienced-foods-have-been-claimed-to-be/)

[Jane Grigson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-grigson/)

> [The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilised living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-grigson/the-artichoke-above-all-is-the-vegetable-expression-of-civilised/)

[Jane Grigson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-grigson/)

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