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So what is the best vegetable? Well, we all know that: it's the potato. The vegetable you can't screw up. You can throw a potato , run away from it - and, an hour later, it's turned into a meal. Try doing that with broccoli, or a trifle, and it will laugh in your face.

Caitlin Moran

So what is the best vegetable? Well, we all know that: it's the potato. The vegetable you can't screw up. You can throw a potato , run away from it - and, an hour later, it's turned into a meal. Try doing that with broccoli, or a trifle, and it will laugh in your face.

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About Caitlin Moran

Catherine Elizabeth Moran ( KAT-lin mÉ™-RAN; born 5 April 1975) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author at The Times, where she writes two columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch".
Moran was named British Press Awards (BPA) Columnist of the Year for 2010, and both BPA Critic of the Year 2011 and Interviewer of the Year 2011. In 2012, she was named Columnist of the Year by the London Press Club, and Culture Commentator at the Comment Awards in 2013.