# Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen; or, How to cook vegetables Author: Ross, Janet, 1842-1927 Genre: Category: Cooking & Drinking Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69370 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Leaves+from+our+Tuscan+kitchen%3B+or%2C+How+to+cook+vegetables+Ross&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The innate love of change in man is visible even in the kitchen. Not so very long ago soup was an exception in English houses--almost a luxury. A dish of vegetables--as a dish and not an adjunct to meat--was a still greater rarity; and even now plain-boiled potatoes, peas, cabbages, etc., are the rule. When we read of the dishes, fearfully and wonderfully made, in the old Italian _novelle_, we wonder whence the present Italians got their love of vegetables and maccaroni. ## Chapters - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leaves-from-our-tuscan-kitchen-or-how-to-cook-vegetables-69370/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leaves-from-our-tuscan-kitchen-or-how-to-cook-vegetables-69370/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leaves-from-our-tuscan-kitchen-or-how-to-cook-vegetables-69370/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leaves-from-our-tuscan-kitchen-or-how-to-cook-vegetables-69370/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leaves-from-our-tuscan-kitchen-or-how-to-cook-vegetables-69370/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leaves-from-our-tuscan-kitchen-or-how-to-cook-vegetables-69370/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leaves-from-our-tuscan-kitchen-or-how-to-cook-vegetables-69370/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leaves-from-our-tuscan-kitchen-or-how-to-cook-vegetables-69370/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/leaves-from-our-tuscan-kitchen-or-how-to-cook-vegetables-69370/chapters/1/index.md)