Baby veggies come of age

Quoted: Some vegetables have real babies and fake ones, too. Irwin Goldman, a beets-and-onions man at the University of Wisconsin, explained that scallions might be sold as foetal bulbs in the United States, but they come from a different species altogether overseas (cf. Allium fistulosum, the “Welsh onion”). Or bok choy: American grocers sell a baby version harvested before it gets too big and fibrous. A true infant, perhaps, but also a hack; an Asian dwarf variety claims to be the real thing.