Seasonal produce - autumn

Best seasonal veg - cavolo nero, aka tuscan cabbage, aka kale, aka black cabbage. Grown locally. Fabulous rich deep black-green colour, a paler turquoise on the reverse with that waterproof texture that turns water into quicksilver balls. Chop it up and bung it in soups, stews, anything. It cooks down but not like spinach. 

And finally, in autumn,  purple garlic Australian-grown, not Italian imports at a ridiculous $45 p kilo. Is it true that Chinese garlic is bleached white? Why on earth would anyone want to do that, how can anything be nicer than purple garlic?