Sprouts without head, Brassica oleracea var. acephala edo var. viridis, Galician cabbage and wheat cabbage. In Galicia it is the cabbage, the most common. It is used to make the green soup, which has a great glory. From Euskal Herria and following the shore of the Atlantic, you will see it in almost every vegetable garden to the south of Portugal: in the head of a long and thin leg wide bluish leaves, proud, never with a head upright, without shrinking. This is what the word acephala means, headless. What will I eat without a head? Sprouts like everybody else, leaves. Not wrapped in the head, but with leaves. One by one at the end of the stem, proudly. They cut and collect leaves to leaf, always those at the bottom. As the soil clears, the leg gets longer and longer. The dictionary gathers it as follows: “The long bereaved legs are also getting up, the legs already hanging from here.”

Following what is not distinguished between land and sea, in the South Atlantic Ocean, we will find many varieties of cabbages: long stalks and short stalks, wilts and sweaters, red and blue... Each culture has its favorites: Asturians, Galicians, Portuguese green and red... I think the worst of cabbages is ours. It is more difficult to keep the old when the news, the “news” are made available. And our people have lived at a geographical crossroads. And from the outside, a lot of things have come and have stayed easy.

I enjoyed cabbages and turnips in Lisbon (Brassica napus). At the spectacular Feria de la Ribera, an old one that did not want to tell me where his name was, where it was not – said But Lisbon, with no distance – he showed me his love for the turnips. The truth is, it sells beautiful. Another one next door offered gargoyles, turnips and cabbages. Shoppers got them, finer.

Recently, a radio listener has asked me if they eat turnips. Although in other times they also ate a lot here, today we have them relegated to the onion of gastronomy. But I didn't forget them. Ask if Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa merge in the area, if there are grains of arbi, turnips or arbi-arrow. At the price of angula or ezkaile; without head.