This is tender young broccoli with a wonderful purplish cast on its flowerets. With its little flowerets and a distinct broccoli appearance, you might mistake this as baby broccoli, but it's not. This rather bitter vegetable is wonderful steamed or sauteed in garlic and oil. Look for organic broccoli rabe at the Meadow Brook Farm stand. Look for a head of cabbage that is hard and crispy, as well as tightly packed.
Cabbage is good hot, particularly when cooked with meats, but also great cold as coleslaw.
This summer's carrots are crispy and sweet. Look for smooth and firm ones and avoid those with cracks. Because they're young, these carrots really need no peeling. Look for firm heads with no yellow or brown spots. Not sure, but it's bound to taste like celeriac, a twisted, brown vegetable related to the celery family.