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A stainless steel rack that is built to hold asparagus so it can be steamed vertically with the stems standing in several inches of water when cooking.

A type of cookware designed for steaming asparagus. The asparagus steamer consists of a long narrow wire basket, a steaming pot, and a lid.

A vegetable with long, tender shoots that may be white, purple or green in color, all belonging to a plant that is a member of the lily family.

A cream-based soup that is made with bits of asparagus for texture and flavoring. Similar to many other cream soups, Cream of Asparagus can be served as a lunch or dinner soup or it can be added to casseroles to create a savory sauce.

A salad green that grows with long thin stems containing ragged or serrated green leaves similar to dandelion greens.

A handy kitchen tool that is used to easily cut and peel the tough layer of outer skin away from the tender meat within the asparagus stalk.

A cooking green that is a celtuce variety of garden lettuce grown for its thick edible stem instead of the leaf, which is thin and bitter tasting.

An illness caused by eating food contaminated with clostridium botulinum bacteria. The bacteria grows rapidly in foods that are not stored properly.

A perennial plant that grows wild along the shores of the Baltic and Black Sea and the Atlantic Coast.

A fresh bean that grows in the sea in the form of a long, pencil thin, cylindrical green stem that may have spherical-shaped, spike-like buds on the ends.

A rippled leaf vegetable with a white or red stalk and green leaves that have white veins running throughout the stalk.

Often referred to as a "country" lettuce, this salad green grows with long thin stems that sprout ragged or serrated green leaves, similar to dandelion greens.

The edible leaf or paddle of the prickly pear cactus. Nopal is the Mexican word for cactus and the leaf growing on the stem is referred to as Nopales.

A fresh bean that grows in the sea in the form of a long, pencil thin, cylindrical green stem that may have spherical-shaped, spike-like buds on the ends.

A rippled or smooth-leafed vegetable that has a white, red or yellow stalk with white veins running throughout the stalks.

A vegetable consisting of green clusters of buds, known as florets, which grow on a thick leafy stalk.

A crinkly leafy vegetable, which is a member of the beet family, that has a bright red stalk with green leaves that have red veins running through them.

A root vegetable that is typically referred to by either of two names, white Salsify or black Salsify.

A small fern plant which sprouts a shoot at the tip of the plant, referred to as a "frond" or a "crosier," that is harvested to be served as a vegetable.

Generally considered to be a salad green, chicory is a relative of the endive family of greens, known as Cichorium.