Ten of the best vegetables

At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best vegetables in literature.One title on the list:Ulysses by James JoyceThe most significant yet mysterious vegetable in literature is surely Leopold Bloom's potato. "Potato I have", he thinks as he checks his pockets on first leaving his house; he carries it everywhere. A prostitute takes it, but he retrieves it, explaining: "It is nothing, but