Choose carefully
When you shop
At store for broccoli
As the very top
Deal you can make
Is to buy the crowns
Not the stems to take
For they're not sound
Most are not edible
And you pay by weight
So it's quite incredible
For they're thrown away
Crowns are more dear
But all of it is food to eat
So they're a better steer
And so will steam-heat
Nicely in just enough water
To cover the pan-bottom
As they do slowly simmer
Until tender, not forgotten
- Tristram
Christopher W. Thomas
9am Monday, Feb. 23rd, 1998