Especially good sources of fibre-filled, antioxidant-packed fare include cruciferous vegetables, think broccoli, kale, and cabbage; carotenoid vegetables, such as carrots and sweet potatoes; tomato products; and allium vegetables, like onions, garlic, and leeks.
The leek moth, in equal eighth place, is also expected to spread rapidly in the future because of warmer temperatures, and together with the allium leaf miner, which is still outside the top 20 but rising fast, could cause mayhem in vegetable patches.
From Mizoram, he brought back an unnamed allium, which the locals use as we might a spring onion.
A narrower range of vegetables are used than in the south; cabbage and da cong (a member of the allium family that resembles a rather tender leek).
Dr. Block and some of his colleagues are also beginning to study the several hundred allium species that still grow wild in Central and Southwest Asia, a number of which are harvested locally and eaten in large amounts, and have very different defensive chemistries.
The flat-leafed allium known as Chinese or garlic chives produces a small amount of garlicky allicin, but much more of a different weapon that has a milder, cabbage-like aroma.
He found his calling in allium chemistry as a new Ph.D., and over four decades has worked out many of its details at the State University at Albany.
Sautéing, steaming, poaching, frying, braising, baking into a gratin and simmering into soup — that allium and I have had many adventures.
There is a list of necessary tools (floral tape, pruners), a guide to ingredients (base foliage, focal flowers, character bits) and then step-by-step recipes for 43 flowers, from allium to zinnia.
The same reactivity that makes the allium sulfur compounds such potent weapons also makes them short-lived.
Among its many charms (one it shares with all its allium relations, including the ornamentals) is the fact that deer shun it.
