Cruciferous vegetables Cruciferous vegetables Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and similar green leaf vegetables. The family takes its alternative name (Cruciferae, New Latin for "cross-bearing") from the shape of their flowers, whose four petals resemble a cross. Ten of the most common cruciferous vegetables eaten by people, known colloquially in North America as cole crops and in Britain and Ireland as "brassicas", are in a single species ("Brassica oleracea"); they are not distinguished from
The Lion has Many Ears The Lion has Many Ears Mörg eru ljónsins eyru (literally, 'Many are the Lion's Ears', or, in the publisher's translation, 'The Lion has Many Ears'), published in Reykjavík in 2010 by JPV, is an Icelandic crime novel by Þórunn Erlu-Valdimarsdóttir set between 1995 and 2009. It is to a large extent an adaptation of the famous medieval Icelandic saga "Laxdæla saga"; in the assessment of Páll Baldvin Baldvinsson, 'the love triangle of "Laxdæla saga" is here dragged screaming into the present, though some parts of the story were clearly written before the Crash, others after'. The novel was nominated for