My household hates broccoli but I love it they are apart of the cabbage family.
I love broccoli!  I thought it was a gmo of cauliflower but I could be wrong.
No it is apart of the cabbage family the large flower head is what is to be eaten I like mines boiled and fried how about you?
My favourite is tempura but I'll eat it any way even raw.  I grew broccoli before and it had tiny yellow flowers which was not the part we typically eat.
I can't eat it raw my mother likes it like that with some fresh ranch it's to bland for me and I never had it in tempura only my sushi with shrimp and rice lol.
You should try tempura broccoli, eggplant, and sweet potato are also amazing tempura.  What is your favorite way to eat broccoli?
Sweet potato
The sweet potato ("Ipomoea batatas") is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are a root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens. The sweet potato is only distantly related to the potato ("Solanum tuberosum") and does not belong to the nightshade family, Solanaceae, but both families belong to the same taxonomic order, the Solanales. The sweet potato, especially
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Local cuisine is based on some typical elements of the Trentino simple plain fare such as polenta and game. 
The "broccoli di Torbole" ("Brassica oleracea" var. "botrytis") are a variety of cauliflower or broccoflower imported from Verona around the mid-18th century. Inside the large cabbage family, broccoli di Torbole has become separate variety in its cultivar group. After its seedling stage, it grows rapidly and without special care, but needs to be watered frequently. Maturation begins at the beginning of November