It seems that cabbage, traditionally the least glamorous vegetable at the greengrocers, is having a moment. Not only have trend forecasters declared 2026 as the year of the cabbage but Pinterest has announced the rise of “cabbage core”, largely involving crockery shaped like cabbage leaves, which looks suspiciously like something your grandmother owned in 1977.
It has also become fashionable enough to appear in a Vogue spread and serious enough for Business Insider to pay attention, extolling cabbage’s health virtues, digestive credentials and the renewed interest in cabbage soup.
