5 Culinary-School Tricks That Turned Me into a Vegetable Lover

I ate them because I should; now I do it because I want to

Irresistible zucchini at Mercato Sant’Ambrogio in Florence. Photos: Sara Cagle

I’d never been a big “vegetable person.”

My favorite green thing used to be scallions, and my idea of getting my veggies in was stirring spinach into my Annie’s mac and cheese.