1.   Boiling vegetables has been unfashionable the past few years in order to achieve a crisper end product.

2.   Boiling vegetables, on the other hand, leaves many vitamins in the water, and when the water is poured off the vitamins go down the drain.

3.   This does not mean Italians boil their vegetables into a soft, tasteless mush.

4.   Why should I boil a vegetable before freezing it?