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RE: Stop Boiling the Vegetables!
Great list! I really don't know how the old-style cookbooks got ahold of the idea that you should cook vegetables as if they were spaghetti. Could it be a legacy technique from the days when veggies were sometimes overripe?
Anyhoo, that's just trivia.
That's an interesting question! I have no idea. I gather that, in part, some of it might be from the culture gleaning off of a new wife's fear of not knowing how to cook. The book I was reading was written with that sort of tone "Husbands rave over these cheesy peas!" etc, and so I assume boiling was an accessible means of doing the "healthy" thing.
Could be...I was wondering about the instruction to boil in salted water.