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"So many vegetables, but &lt;strong&gt;green beans&lt;/strong&gt; are the ones I remember specifically. My family still teases me about my mom saying, \"One more bite, baby.\" Now I say I never met a vegetable I didn't like. Also\u2014and just realizing how amazing my mom was/is\u2014she would PICK OUT the kidney beans from her meat chili for me. Now I love all the beans.\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Make it now: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/green-beans-with-miso-butter\"&gt;Green Beans with Miso Butter&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;\u2014&lt;i&gt;Dawn Perry, senior food editor\u00A0&lt;/i&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt; So many vegetables, but &lt;strong&gt;green beans&lt;/strong&gt; are the ones I remember specifically. My family still teases me about my mom saying, \"One more bite, baby.\" Now I say I never met a vegetable I didn't like. Also\u2014and just realizing how amazing my mom was/is\u2014she would PICK OUT the kidney beans from her meat chili for me. Now I love all the beans.\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Make it now: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/green-beans-with-miso-butter\"&gt;Green Beans with Miso Butter&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;\u2014&lt;i&gt;Dawn Perry, senior food editor\u00A0&lt;/i&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Broccoli rabe&lt;/strong&gt;.\u00A0If you've ever had it, you know it's an acquired taste (especially for a child). Bitter, sometimes tough, and\u00A0misleadingly broccoli-looking, it graced the dinner table at least once a week when I was growing up. If\u00A0I was lucky, I got the more mild preparation\u2014boiled with sweet white onions. But more often than not it was saut\u00E9ed with garlic and chile flakes, which did wonders to boost its astringency. &lt;strong&gt;Make it now: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/broccoli-rabe-and-provolone-grinders\"&gt;Broccoli Rabe and Provolone Grinders&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;\u2014&lt;i&gt;Joanna Sciarrino, assistant editor&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beets and asparagus&lt;/strong&gt;. My mom served 'em straight from the can\u2014awful! My sister and I would hide them under our plates, but then the ring of vegetables would be revealed when it was time to clear the table. My sister STILL won't eat them to this day, even though I keep telling her they're really good!\u00A0&lt;strong&gt;Make it now: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/pickled-umeboshi-beets\"&gt;Pickled Umeboshi Beets&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;\u2014&lt;i&gt;Shelley Wolson, freelance copy editor&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Like every other red-blooded American child, I hated green vegetables. &lt;strong&gt;Brussels sprouts&lt;/strong&gt; were evil, &lt;strong&gt;spinach&lt;/strong&gt; was Satan's spawn, and &lt;strong&gt;asparagus&lt;/strong&gt; possessed the most nefarious qualities of everything in the vegetable kingdom combined (weird-looking, funny-tasting, and mucous-y in color). Plus it made your pee smell! Only in adulthood did I realize the error of my (and my parents' ) ways: BOILING. How many tons of produce do you think the Baby Boomers ruined by boiling? Too many to calculate. Anyway, I'm all grown-up now, eating kale and broccoli and collards like they're going out of style.\u00A0While I'm still wary of Brussels sprouts, and really only like spinach raw in a salad or masked in a dip, nothing brings me more pleasure than a big plate of buttery, char-grilled asparagus, preferably crowned with a fried egg and a showering of good parmesan. We're like BFFs now\u2014so long as boiling water keeps its distance. &lt;strong&gt;Make it now: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/roasted-asparagus\"&gt;Roasted Asparagus&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;\u2014&lt;i&gt;Ashlea Halpern, special projects editor&lt;/i&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Lentils&lt;/strong&gt;. It's a favorite winter stew in Spain (where my mother is from). Kids usually hate it and my cousins and I would chant \"&lt;em&gt;Lentejas pa las viejas&lt;/em&gt;\" (\"lentils are for old women\")\u00A0when forced to eat it for the midday supper. I now LOVE lentil stew, especially made by my mother. &lt;strong&gt;Make it now: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/curried-lentil-soup\"&gt;Curried Lentil Soup&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;\u2014&lt;i&gt;Cristina Martinez, production director\u00A0&lt;/i&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Lima beans&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;liver&lt;/strong&gt; were both on my list\u2014and are still on my list. My taste buds will never come around to those horrors! &lt;strong&gt;Make it now: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/lima-beans-with-red-wine-vinaigrette\"&gt;Lima Beans with Red Wine Vinaigrette&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;\u2014&lt;i&gt;Christine Penberthy, research director&lt;/i&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beets&lt;/strong&gt;. Oh my GOD, I hated them. My mom used to eat the canned variety doused in butter, and I can still taste their tinny, flat flavor. I never even touched one until 2010 when I hesitantly tried roasted fresh beets for the first time. Life changed. &lt;strong&gt;Make it now: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/beetnik-martini\"&gt;Beetnik Martini&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;\u2014&lt;i&gt;Danielle Walsh, assistant web editor&lt;/i&gt; &lt;p style=\"text-align: left;\"&gt;Believe it or not, &lt;strong&gt;caviar&lt;/strong&gt;! My mom made caviar pie every Xmas and it truly scarred me. &lt;strong&gt;Make it now: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/soft-cooked-eggs-with-onion-soubise-caviar-and-potato-chips\"&gt;Soft-Cooked Eggs with Onion Soubise, Caviar, and Potato Chips&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;\u2014&lt;i&gt;Christine Muhlke, executive editor&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; My mom had a thing called \"the one-bite rule\" where no matter what, I had to have at least one bite of everything she either cooked or ordered at a restaurant. While in retrospect this was probably one of the best things she could have done for me, I couldn't have been less enthusiastic when &lt;strong&gt;cilantro&lt;/strong&gt; was involved, which was a lot of the time. Funny enough, it's now one of my favorite herbs. Thanks, Mom! &lt;strong&gt;Make it now: &lt;a href=\"http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/steak-salad-with-herbs\"&gt;Steak Salad with Herbs&lt;/a&gt;\u00A0&lt;/strong&gt;\u2014&lt;i&gt;Alison Roman, senior food editor&lt;/i&gt; My mom hates when I tell this story, but: When I was 6 or 7, I asked her to make me an English muffin with butter and jam, and then, when presented with the results, refused it. &lt;strong&gt;Butter AND jam?&lt;/strong&gt; Yuck! Furious, she smushed the offending muffin in my face, sending me crying to my father. Now, however, I can't get enough of that combination: good bread, rich butter, sweet jam\u2014as &lt;a href=\"http://instagram.com/p/le1wvPEqxv/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;this morning's Instagram proves&lt;/a&gt;.\u00A0&lt;em&gt;\u2014Matt Gross, editor, BonAppetit.com&lt;/em&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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