You might say that the deep purple eggplant
with its sinuous full-bodied curve is the most beautiful
vegetable at the market, though, truly,
it is not a vegetable at all, but a fruit. You see it has seeds,
and these seeds are highly important to botanists 
for some not so apparent reason. Don’t think
that the zucchini is any different, which, along with the eggplant
is delicious when combined with the tomato, which is not
a vegetable either. The cucumber should be a surprise
to no one who has served benedictine cheese on rye bread
as a tea sandwich in Kentucky. Deseeding
is a major step. I might suggest the root a certain place
to begin for distinguishing a vegetable from a fruit, but the rutabaga
sometimes appears in a pie,
though I have neither eaten nor served one.