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What you see here is a romanesco, or romanesco cabbage. The photo was taken by John Walker, host of the science and computing site Fourmilab.
Walker has dedicated an entire page to the discussion of the fractals—self-similar and repeating patterns—found in this vegetable. He first spends time classifying romensco, which belongs to the same family as more common vegetables like broccoli and cabbage. There’s also discussion of fractals and how they relate to the grand patterns of nature. Walker then tells us how he shot a series of close-ups of the romanesco, and, finally, the best ways to eat it. While he says it's good raw, Walker prefers to "break off the "level 1" spirals" and steam them.
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10-18-2005 @6:21PM David Trowbridge said... Fractal structure is present in a lot of different cabbages and vegetables, not just romanesco. While my specimen isn't quite the caliber of John Walker's, it's still fun to run into things like this in the middle of preparing a meal: http://zero.navi.cx/gallery/photography/fractal_cabbage
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10-18-2005 @7:10PM Ed said... While it's a member of the brassicas, I wouldn't call it a cabbage. Cauliflower and broccoli are both brassicas, also, but we don't call them broccoli cabbages :)
The romanesco bears a much stronger resemblance to broccoli and cauliflower than normal green or red leaf cabbage, anyway.
Pedant mode off.
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10-18-2005 @9:40PM Nick said... David, thanks for sharing the cabbage photo. It's beautiful.
Ed, I called it 'romanesco cabbage' because it was referred to as such on site I linked to. I could be wrong, but I believe that things like broccoli and cauliflower were bred or developed from cabbages.
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10-18-2005 @10:10PM Ed said... Oh, I know. I saw it referred to as cabbage there, too. I think that's because the french name is "chou romanesco" or "romanesco cabbage".
But there are ton of brassicas, cabbage variants, that no one really considers to be cabbage. Along with broccoli and cauliflower mentioned above, there's also kale, brussels sprouts, spinach, and radishes.
I think it's just a vestige of the french language that it's called a cabbage at all :)
I just thought it sounded funny, and figured I'd drop a note :)
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10-19-2005 @12:26PM Tara said... All of those vegetables are in the cabbage family, we just tend not to call them cabbages. The wikipedia site for cabbage gives a run down.
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