“It has been a spectacular rise for a vegetable that was previously best known in the US for being ignored on plates of crudités. If you weren’t paying attention, cauliflower seemed to rise out of nowhere — you weren’t eating it, and then you were. But to the people who track these things, both chefs and trend forecasters, the rise of cauliflower is a perfect illustration of how food trends evolve.” How cauliflower took over your pizza, your kitchen, and the world. (My theory is that cauliflower got more popular as Americans became increasingly desperate to encounter anything resembling a brain.)

+ The Atlantic: When Televisions Were Radioactive. (For the record, I was aware of the risk and took it anyway…)

+ A headline for our age: Prosecutors seek to prevent El Chapo’s attorneys from using Trump’s remark that ‘flippers’ should be illegal.