Genre fiction, we are told, is easily digested but nutrition-free fluff, whilst literary fiction is harder to swallow but better for you, like broccoli.

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West and south of Siena, and two hours north of Rome, it sweeps from a Tyrrhenian seacoast of limestone cliffs, deserted dunes, and umbrella pines that look like fantasy broccoli forests, across broad plains of olive trees and scented Mediterranean brush, and up to shadowy woodlands and ancient, fortified hill towns.

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We thought you could eat it with a spoon and cut it with a knife. (Laughter.) And I know a lot of parents out there cooking broccoli like that.

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After all, like health insurance, broccoli has the potential to improve health, thereby reducing health care spending and perhaps enhancing economic productivity of the workforce.

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Speaking at the AFJ conference, Ruta explained how at the behest of Barbara Bush who was convinced her husband would like a certain preparation of broccoli, he served the president the vegetable.

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That totals seven Republican U.S. Senators who supported the idea of mandates before they decided that it was an abomination that will destroy our freedoms and force us to eat broccoli whether we like it or not.

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For dinner, she prepares a piece of protein, like unseasoned chicken oven-baked without oil, accompanied by a serving of steamed veggies such as broccoli, squash or asparagus.

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Vegans and the gluten-averse can take solace in classic contorni broccoli rabe with raisins and pine nuts, spinach aglio olio and in salads like the pretty plate of rainbow beets, a still-life of fuchsia, crimson, and yellow, its sweetness offset by the peppery bite of bright-green wild watercress.

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