I have a lot of respect for cabbage. It is a versatile, tactile, nutritious vegetable, and like the upcoming "Destiny 2" expansion, it is anything but light. If you try to eat cabbage, you'll probably end up consuming as many calories as you consume. But if, like me, you're wondering if there's a better way to eat cabbage than repeatedly nibbling on it like an apple, the upcoming official "Destiny" cookbook has the answer.

Coleslaw.

Coleslaw? Coleslaw?

Destiny is a game about invading ships so incalculably huge they can chew up planets and process them into wine, killing insect-like shadowy hive gods, and traveling through endless time loops to prevent sentient milk species from destroying humanity. What do people eat in this setting, you may wonder? What defines a food culture? It would be coleslaw.

Coleslaw is as benign a recipe as you will find in any cookbook in the universe. Coleslaw is even a good thing, but why was it included in a two-page spread in the official "Destiny" cookbook? It could have been called "hive slaw" to make it even remotely relevant, but it's not, and in the world of Destiny, there are cookies and cocktails named after guns. And coleslaw. Coleslaw. Zavala probably doesn't even think about coleslaw.

What's really interesting here is the accompanying paragraph of coleslaw lore that firmly establishes chopped cabbage and vinegar in the world of Destiny. And the text in Destiny's official cookbook, designed to represent the characters and culture of the imaginative sci-fi setting, is based on the author seeing a tentacled face in the depths of Xur and thinking, "This one in particular reminds me of coleslaw."

In other words, I feel a bit sorry for the author; Destiny is a rather gritty world compared to something like World of Warcraft. You don't get much downtime in the field tasting local cuisine, and playful recipe names like "Vex Milk" and "Red Legion Sauce" don't enhance the feeling of sinking a cookie or eating spaghetti.

I just feel like choosing coleslaw among the existing popular recipes to push into marketing tie-in recipe books is as inspirational as the act of eating coleslaw. At the very least, let them put the coleslaw in a conceptual future bowl, or include instructions for molding it into the shape of a gun.

But maybe the bungee is trying to tell us something. It may not be a coincidence that the average cabbage has the same shape as the Traveler. The Traveler is a mysterious sphere that appears above the earth and bestows the power of light on certain people. Those who possessed this power became Guardians, protectors of the earth from the oncoming darkness and the threat of the more prescient Cabal, Vex, and Fallen.

What is light if not a metaphor for a concoction of apple cider vinegar, mayonnaise, and various garnishes and spices? And chopped cabbage ...... The scattered remnants of humanity ......? The dressing, or light, enriches the cabbage, and the cabbage, as a vessel of texture and constitution, gives the dressing form and purpose. Without light there is no humanity" and "without dressing there is no cabbage."

In the following essay I will explain what I believe broccoli can teach us about the nature of "darkness." Webster's dictionary defines vegetables as.