A bright green variety of broccoli with a dense head.
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We're trying calabrese for the first time. I can't remember the variety.
Some of the best broccoli is grown in the south of Italy, hence the reason it is also called calabrese, from Calabria.
Mrs Cox became the first lady to win the cup for the best collection of vegetables of calabrese, lettuce, beetroot, onions and courgettes.
The species Brassica oleracea includes the vegetable crops cauliflower, cabbage, calabrese, and Brussels sprouts.
There's a wide range of slab pizzas, with toppings like bocconcini, spicy calabrese, onions and cheese, fresh tomatoes, rapini and the all-dressed Motta special.
Purple sprouting broccoli looks like a slight, weedy cousin of the fat green stems of calabrese that are available all year round.
One of those is his calabrese and what he doesn't exhibit he sells to the Beggars' Arms for goodly sums.
The Italian connection is maintained in the name of the vegetable calabrese, which refers to the Italian province of Calabria.