One of my guilty pleasures is to watch cooking shows on the Food Network. Recently I got sucked into a variety of shows focusing on cooking for the holidays. In one of them, Ree Drummond (she of the Pioneer Woman cooking phenomenon) looked straight at the camera and said that she was preparing Brussels sprouts for the holiday dinner because her children demanded it. A moment later, she laughingly admitted, “Not really.”
Brussels sprouts do often grace the holiday table (and yes,...
