And some ideas for brussels sprouts — The cruciferous (brassica) family boasts the cabbage, kale, cauliflower, broccoli, broccolini, brussels sprout, savoy, kohirabi and mustard greens. Humans started to genetically engineer these variants from one weedy Mediterranean plant, the mustard plant (brassica oleracea) 2–3000 years ago. The brussels sprout is a relative newcomer to the family, and records…