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Where do you get vegetables?

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Throughout the world there are many types vegetables. Most of them are not to well-known however, they do exist.

Artichoke - a tight head of fleshy leaves, delicious with lemon butter

Asparagus - tender green tips available during a short growing season

Aubergene - a rich purple vegetable that absorbs strong flavours well. The aubergene is called eggplant in America.

Beans - high protein seeds of legume plants

Beet - tubers with rich nutty flavours. A sweet variety of beet is grown commercially in Europe and Asia for sugar manufacture.

Broccoli - green and delicious and full of vitamins

Brussels sprouts - traditionally eaten with Christmas Dinner in the UK

Cabbage - the king of vegetables. Easy to grow almost anywhere

Carrot - introduced by the Romans, carrots have been popular for 2000 Years

Cauliflower - white relative of broccoli

Celeriac - a large knotted ball-like root vegetable which makes amazing nutty soups

Celery - slightly bitter (unless blanched) European stalks with a distinctive flavour, used in salads, stews and soups.

Chard - green leafy vegetable

Chicory - bitter vegetable

Collards - this leafy green vegetable is also known as tree-cabbage and is rich in vitamins and minerals.

Corn - North American native vegetable considered sacred by many native tribes. Confusingly corn is also the word used to describe the seeds of wheat and barley.

Cress - small peppery sprouts

Cucumbers - related to courgettes and traditionally used raw in salads. The cucumber grows quickly and holds lots of water

Gourds - the common name for fruits of the Cucurbitaceae family of plants (members include cucumbers, squashes, luffas, and melons).

Jerusalem Artichoke - it isn't an Artichoke and it doesn't come from Jerusalem. The jersalem Artichoke is actually related to the sunflower. The bit we eat is an ugly little tuber (like a small thin potato) that tastes amazing. It has a smoky taste that really excites the palette.

Kales - until the Renaissance, kale was the most common green vegetable eated by the people of northern Europe

Kohlrabi - kohlrabi is a member of the turnip family and can be either purple or white.

Leek - the national vegetable of Wales.

Lettuce - lots of green leaves used as a mainstay of salads. Varieties such as round, isberg, lollo rosso and radichio are popular.

Melons - wonderful fruits with a high water content. There are many farmed varieties . All have seeds surrounded by rich, watery but sweet flesh that is encased in a fairly hard shell.

Mushrooms - not technically a vegetable, but a far older member of the plant kingdom. Mushrooms do not use sunlight to produce energy, hence they have a completely different range of tastes than any other vegetable. Did you know that the largest single living organism on earth is a mushroom called Armillaria Ostoyae, the biggest of which is up to 8,500 years old and carpets nearly 10 square kilometres of forest floor in northeastern Oregon, USA.

Okra - also called 'ladies fingers' or gumbo is a wonderful pungent vegetable from the same family as hollyhock. It probably was first cultivated in Ethiopia and is still a North African staple, but has become popular in Europe, Asia and America too.

Onions - onions have been eaten for tens of thousands of years and we still aren't bored of them.

Parsnips - the sweet, starchy parsnip was a very popular European vegetable before the arrival of potaoes and Sugar Cane from the Americas. Although not the prize it once was, the Parsnip is a classic root vegetable, particularly popular in more northern lattitudes.

Peas - best eated within minutes of picking as the sugars rapidly turn to starch. Therefore frozen peas often taste better than 'fresh' peas.

Peppers - these are the fruit of the Capsicum family of plants. The hotter tasting ones (due to more Capsaicinoids in the flesh) are usually refered to as chillis.

Potatoes - nothing finer than a steaming plate of mashed potatoes. An American staple crop that as been exported all over the world.

Pumpkins - a popular gourd vegetable used in cooking and to make Halloween jack o lanterns.

Radicchio - a chicory leaf used in salads. Popular since ancient times, modern widescale cultivation of the plant began in the fifteenth century close to Venice in Italy.

Radish - rich in ascorbic acid (vitamin C), folic acid (folate), and Potassium, the raddish is a peppery vegetable popular in western and Asian cookery. We usually eat the taproot, but the leaves can also be eaten in salads.

Rhubarb - a plant with large leaves that grow out of thick succulent stems with a very particular floral scent. These stems are popularly eaten as a fruit once sweetened and cooked. Rhubarb was originally native to China but has been popular in Europe since Roman times.

Rutabaga - alternative name for Swede

Shallots - small onions often with a more fiery bite.

Spinach -large green leaves wilt easily in a pan and are often served with a little butter and nutmeg as an accompanying vegetable. Spinach contains lots of healthy trace minerals including iron

Squash another generic name for fruits of the vine of the Cucurbitaceae family of plants (see also Gourds). Butternut Squash has recently grown in popularity in the United Kingdom.

Swede - apparently a cross between cabbages and turnips swedes are a low calory root vegetable

Sweetcorn - a north American native plant loved throughout the world.

Sweet potato - ipomoea batatas (related to the morning glory) produces a starchy tuber. In the USA the red variety of sweet potato is often called a yam, although yams are a separate vegetable in their own right.

Watercress - very peppery small salad like leaves

Yams - sweet starchy tuber that are popular in African, Carribean and American cookery

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Nowadays everything is available all around the world. You should only know in this era of globalization the place to get it.

For example, even in a country like India - you can get almost every kind of vegetables. I have bought every kind of exotic vegetable you can think of from dailydeliver.com

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Most people buy vegetables in the produce, canned or frozen department at a grocery store. You can also buy organic vegetables at a health food store. During the summer, vegetables can be purchased at local farmer's markets or directly from some growers.

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I think you are talking about buying vegetables.

Well you can buy them from many a places but nowadays online option is the best. It has many advantages, especially the one that vegetables come straight from farmers and are comparatively fresh.

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