Barbara Damrosch

One of the most famous cartoons ever to run in the New Yorker magazine shows a small girl being told by her mother that the food on her plate is broccoli. "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it," http://www.newyorkerstore.com/1920s/Its-broccoli-dear-I-say-its-spinach-and-I-say-the-hell-with-it/invt/116975 replies the girl. Irving Berlin turned it into a song.

Start companion planting corn and shell beans in your home garden and enjoy the two sisters, grown together for generations. Then combine them in our sweet corn and bean recipes. Corn and beans have long been related — in history, in the garden, and in the kitchen. As two of the “three sisters,” as Native Americans call them, they coexist happily. Vining beans climb cornstalks, while big leaves of squash carpet the ground below.

Add the cucumber-pepper mixture last in this chunky gazpacho recipe, so diners can stir it in bit by bit.