Saffron cauliflower

In the summer of 2009 I was asked by the makers of the Food Programme on BBC Radio 4 to host a half-hour show on a subject of my choice. Bizarrely, I ended up doing a programme about cauliflower, trying to show how this veg is unjustifiably losing its popularity in recent years, particularly to broccoli. I know that there’s nothing obviously sexy about cauliflower to warrant star status. In fact, it seems – on the face of it – somehow dull and dreary. But as we were working on the sh