Are vegetables really that boring?

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• Not all vegetables are boring — or are they?

Well, they can be. I’ve yet to taste any preparation for lima beans that disguises the starchy quality of this New World legume. Not even succotash. I have friends who love spinach salads but won’t taste cooked spinach. And it wasn’t that long ago when the traditional vegetable offering on most restaurant menus was canned corn, canned green beans … or french fries.

Tomorrow’s edition of the food critics’ panel of The Walt Bodine Show (co-hosted by yours truly) on KCUR 89.3 will take on the subject, “Vegetables That Aren’t Boring.” The show is broadcast at 10 a.m. and should be a lively because everybody loves at least one vegetable.