The Fork Before the Fork What if the most ordinary moment of your day — a meal, a bite, the absent-minded crunch of something green — is actually the tail end of a story that stretches back millions of years? Not metaphorically. Literally. The broccoli on your plate did not come from nature. Not in any pure sense of the word. It was coaxed, cross-bred, and sculpted into existence by human hands over centuries — a vegetable that never existed until someone, somewhere, decided