Beautiful, vibrant green Romanesco looks like a cross between broccoli and cauliflower, but it is not. Not only is it an Italian heirloom dating back to ancient Rome (hence the name), but Romanesco is also an edible fractal -- an arrangement logarithmic of spiral buds, with each spiral bud being composed of a series of smaller spiral buds -- which is precisely what makes Romanesco so captivating.

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